Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsty with Walled Pen to E of No 1 The Locks
Carreghofa, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 5 April 1993
- Locality
- Carreghofa Locks
- Community
- Carreghofa
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.77484, -3.10709
- Cadw reference
- 14182
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Lies between the former Wharfinger's House and the Gauger's Hut on the north bank of the upper lock.
History
Added to Carreghofa Locks complex in later C19.
Exterior
Red brick, slate lean-to roof, tiled cappings. Plank door to rear; timber lintel to pig pen with later C19 blue brick walls and rolled cappings, metal gate.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other canal structures in an exceptional location at Carreghofa Locks.
Nearby in the register
- Lock Gates and Paddle GearTransportunder 1 mi
- Toll Gauger's Hut to E of No 1 The LocksTransportunder 1 mi
- Former Wharfinger's House including brick boundary wall to roadTransportunder 1 mi
- Upper Lock ChamberTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.