Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsties at Bryngwdion
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pontllyfni, Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 21 July 2000
- Locality
- Pontllyfni
- Community
- Llanllyfni
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05490, -4.32315
- Cadw reference
- 23747
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
Located immediately to the west of the farmhouse at Bryngwdion.
History
Not shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the pigsties, which stand away from the main farmyard, are likely to have been built c1850.
Exterior
Main range of lean-to form, the high wall of which forms the stone boundary wall to the farmyard, with lower gabled ranges projecting at right-angles towards farmhouse with low walls connecting to the lean-to range at each end forming the pens, one larger pen at each end and 2 smaller pens between the lower ranges divided by a wall. Roughly coursed rubblestone with harled finish; slate roofs with slate coping. Lean-to range has openings to pens with further doorways in both sides of the lower ranges also giving access to the pens; the floors of the pens are cobbled.
Interior
Lean-to range has full-length passage with slate floor and low rubblestone wall on pen side, above and abutting which are set slate slabs laid on edge and vertically to form separate stalls in which are located individual elongated octagonal slate troughs.
Reason for designation
Included as an integral part of the C19 farmyard group at Bryngwdion, the pigsties demonstate a level of sophistication and innovative planning not usually found in such structures; despite a degree of dereliction the pigsties are a remarkable feature of this lowland farm.
Nearby in the register
- BryngwdionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn and stables at BryngwdionAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse at BryngwdionAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Maen Llwyd in GlynllifonStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.