Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Piggery at Plas Kinmel
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Plas Kinmel, Abergele, Conwy, designated on 5 August 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1997
- Locality
- Plas Kinmel
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27619, -3.53014
- Cadw reference
- 18710
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1963 · Map No. 36 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Plas Kinmel stands at the E at the bottom of Primrose Hill, N of St George village. The piggery lies on the E side of the E range of the farmyard, and behind the dovecote at the end of the S range.
History
Plas Kinmel was designed as a model farm in 1866-7 for H R Hughes of Kinmel, employing a foremost architect, W E Nesfield, who had, unusually, previously designed and detailed farm buildings in Lancashire and Derbyshire.
Exterior
Built of limestone with slate roofs. The piggery is laid out around three sides of a square yard, which is entered from the SW corner. Five styes on the N, each with a small exercise yard bounded by walls 1.3m high, and paired gates. Single opening into the sty, and a steeply pitched ventilation dormer shared between two adjoining styes. Three similar styes on the E side, the roof of which continues to a hipped end, the last bay opening into a large farrowing run, which forms the S side of the yard. The front of this sty is partially walled in brick.
Reason for designation
Included at Grade II* as an example of the care of detail exercised by a foremost Victorian architect on a small element of the model farm complex.
Nearby in the register
- East Range of Farmyard Buildings at Plas KinmelAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas KinmelDomesticunder 1 mi
- North Range of Farmyard Buildings at Plas Kinmel with the enclosed muck yard and entrance gate pierAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- West Range of Farm Buildings at Plas KinmelAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.