Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Piggery at Ystumcegid
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ystumcegid, Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, designated on 30 March 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1999
- Locality
- Ystumcegid
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95798, -4.23862
- Cadw reference
- 21560
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Ystum-cegid lies on a hilltop about 2km S of Dolbenmaen. The piggery lies directly at the back of the back wing of the farmhouse, beyond the yard wall.
History
The house at Ystum-cegid is probably of the C17 in origin. The adjoining piggery is probably of C19 date.
Exterior
Built of rubble stone with some boulders, and a slate roof. It consists of a low food preparation building of 2 bays facing into the domestic yard, with a door and small paned window, and a gable stack, the rear wall of the SE bay carried on 2 piers providing three openings above the floor, each with sloping boarded bottoms under an extension of the roof, and which can be opened directly above feeding troughs of the sties. The pig accommodation is in a parallel roofed structure, the two buildings joined by cross walls with a central walk-way with gates separating each pen. Thus the feeding trough is at the far end of the run from each of the four pig sties.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and good range of purpose-designed pig sties with ingenious arrrangements for preparing the feed and feeding the animals without entering the sties. One of a group of good farm buildings at Ystum-cegid.
Nearby in the register
- YstumcegidDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outhouse at YstumcegidAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Farm Building and Granary at YstumcegidAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Craig-y-Tyddyn CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.