Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Circular Pigsty at the Meadows
Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 September 1995
- Locality
- Tre-Aubrey
- Community
- Llancarfan
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.44266, -3.38442
- Cadw reference
- 16412
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
Located on the S side of the road junction, opposite Tre-Aubrey house.
Exterior
Traditional C18 corbelled pigsty constructed of coursed liassic limestone rubble with traces of limewash together with the remains of the pig pen with enclosing walls, also of limestone. The stone stile survives in the wall to the N of the sty.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II as a good surviving example of this scarce building type.
Nearby in the register
- Horseland moated homesteadMoated Siteunder 1 mi
- Llantrithyd Place: remains of house, relict gardens and wellsHouse (domestic)under 1 mi
- Ty-draw FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ruins of Llantrithyd PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.