Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pig Sty at Lleiniau-hirion
Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 20 July 1999
- Locality
- Trefor
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanaelhaearn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98911, -4.42675
- Cadw reference
- 22011
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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
Lleiniau-hirion lies up a small valleyto the S of the village. The pig sty lies close to the rear left corner of the house.
History
Probably built in the C18 to a traditional rural form.
Exterior
Built of boulder walls and having a corbelled stone roof. It is separated from the rear wall of the house by a narrow passage and is approximately 1.7m square in plan, with a narrow low entrance into the run, approximately 2m x 3m, with its entrance alongside the gable of the farmhouse. The height internally is approximately 1.2m.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare survival of the traditional type of corbelled pig sty used in upland Welsh farms until the C19, and of group value with the farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Lleiniau-hirionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Maes-y-neuadd addoldy annibynwyrReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St GeorgeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- ElernionDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.