Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Piggery at Penychain
Llannor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 February 1999
- Locality
- Morfa Abererch
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llannor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.90087, -4.33974
- Cadw reference
- 21341
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
The farm is on the headland, c4km E of Pwllheli. The piggery closes the farmyard at the NE corner, and is separated from the hammel by a narrow service passage.
History
Penychain was built by the Glyn-llifon Estate in the mid C19 as a model farm. The farm buildings demonstrate an efficient and organised approach to farming undertaken by large estates of the mid Victorian period.
Exterior
The piggery range is built of stone with slate roofs. It consists of 4 pig sties with open runs each side, each with dual feeding troughs on the W side accessed from the rear. The each sty has a low single opening to the run. The feeding structure in each run has slate troughs set under feed hoppers. Access to the sties is from a narrow passage via contemporary slatted iron gates leading from the farmyard end of the the small feed building at the S end, and is terminated on the N by the high crenellated perimeter wall linking the N wall of the N cowhouse range with the garden wall of the house.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed element within the farmyard of the well preserved estate farm group at Penychain.
Nearby in the register
- Penychain FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farm Outbuilding at PenychainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- S Range of Farm Buildings at PenychainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- N Farm Range at PenychainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.