Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsty at Frondeg
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhiw, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 17 January 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 January 2000
- Locality
- Rhiw
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.83111, -4.61373
- Cadw reference
- 22787
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated a few metres SE of the cottage, outside the walled enclosures of its garden plot; between Fron Deg and Bryn Ffynnon.
History
The location suggests that the pigsty was originally associated with Frondeg, so probably contemporary with the cottage, and therefore mid C19.
Exterior
A rare example of a rough stone circular pigsty, partially built into the rise of the ground and making use of boulders on this rough upland site. The pigsty is of drystone rubble construction, roughly domed, but finished internally with flat slabs. the walls of its small enclosure also survive, with gate piers marking the entrance.
Reason for designation
Listed as a very well-preserved example of a primitive vernacular building form - thought to have once been traditional, known surviving examples are now scarce. It forms a group with the cottage at Frondeg, together constituting an expecially complete example ofa tiny upland small-holding.
Nearby in the register
- FrondegDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pic-y-parcDomesticunder 1 mi
- TanyrarddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at GwernsaerDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.