Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsties at Wern
Waunfawr, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caeathro, Waunfawr, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 21 July 1999
- Locality
- Caeathro
- Community
- Waunfawr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.12665, -4.23763
- Cadw reference
- 22043
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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately to the east of the farmhouse at Wern.
History
C19 pigsties.
Exterior
Simple rectangular stucture with rubblestone walls and graded slate lean-to roof. Slate slab dividers and doorways to corners of lean-to. The pigsties now house oil tanks.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved set of C19 pigsties which has group value with the farmhouse at Wern.
Nearby in the register
- WernDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables at WernAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall at Bryn EglwysDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.