Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsties at Mathern Palace
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mathern
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61410, -2.68960
- Cadw reference
- 24090
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In the centre of Mathern village about 50m south of the Church of St Tewdric.
History
A probably mid C19 double pigsty.
Exterior
Constructed of local limestone rubble with pantile roofs. Double pigsty with yard walls with feeding shutes and small shed with lean-to roof.
Interior
Not entered at resurvey but seemingly unaltered.
Reason for designation
Included for historic interest as a well-preserved mid C19 pigsty and for its group value with the adjacent buildings of Mathern Palace.
Nearby in the register
- Old Barn at Mathern PalaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Courtyard House at Mathern PalaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mathern PalaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St TewdricReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.