Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsties at Blawdty
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Penycaerau
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.81236, -4.66661
- Cadw reference
- 20014
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 on E side of farm courtyard at Blawdty.
History
Later C19 pigsty range, part of the farm group at Blawdty, with barn and stable range along S and farmhouse along N sides of yard.
Exterior
Range of pigsties, rubble stone with slate roof and coped gables. Low front wall with three entries under slab lintels, 2 paired to left, one to right and set of low walls to 3 yards, two with broad slate feed chutes under long slab lintels. Slightly taller outbuilding to left with slate roof, stone end chimney, door to right and window to left.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as forming part of a complete farmstead group at Blawdty.
Nearby in the register
- BlawdtyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn and Stable Range at BlawdtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaelrhysReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Plas IolDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.