Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Covered Dung-pit in Monachty Farmyard
Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1996
- Locality
- Monachty/Mynachdy
- Community
- Dyffryn Arth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23628, -4.19102
- Cadw reference
- 17494
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated freestanding in Monachty farm courtyard.
Exterior
History: Mid to later C19 roofed farmyard dung-pit.
Description: A sunken pit, stone lined with sloping entry from E. Big slate roof, hipped to W, carried on six red brick piers each side on low red-brick walls (partly lined in rubble stone). Open E end. Two-bay W end. Brickwork is largely renewed on N side. Five-bay roof with bolted collar trusses.
An unusual Victorian farmyard structure, listed for rarity and for group value with the rest of the exceptional group of farmyard buildings at Monachty.
Nearby in the register
- L-plan ranges on N and W sides of farmyard at MonachtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on S side of farmyard at MonachtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- SE range of farm court at MonachtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- E range of farmyard at MonachtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.