Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Circular Pigsty at Bryngelli
Llanedi, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1986
- Locality
- Llanedi
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Llanedi
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73554, -4.05513
- Cadw reference
- 11885
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
E side of B4297 situated on Sardis Hill with pigsty partly built into the boundary wall of the garden at Bryngelli.
History
Traditional vernacular pigsty probably dating from the late C18 - early C19.
Exterior
Small yard, original entry through narrow upright opening in boundary wall (now blocked). Pigsty partly built into wall, consisting of rubble stone laid in corbelled courses which curve to form a conical chamber, crowned on top by a domed capping stone. Entrance to the sty through a small flat headed opening (now blocked). Partly overgrown with ivy at time of inspection but otherwise in good state.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved and historically important survival of a regional vernacular building type once common but now rare.
Nearby in the register
- Church of Saint EdiReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Neuadd-fachDomestic1 mi
- Plas-Newydd MillCommercial1 mi
- Bryn-y-Rhyd Standing StoneStanding Stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.