Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsty at Upper White Castle
Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 27 October 2000
- Locality
- White Castle
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Whitecastle
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84536, -2.90064
- Cadw reference
- 24334
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Some 15m N of the farmhouse at Upper White Castle.
History
C19 pigsty with small yards at the front and enclosed sleeping room at the back. The design incorporates a series of stone feeding shutes in front wall (now blocked).
Exterior
Three C19 pigsties in linear range. Walls of rubble stone; gabled slate roof with tile ridge. Each pigsty has a small front yard bounded by stone walls with flat coping. The front wall of each yard has a square stone feeding shoot (now blocked). At the back of each yard, doorways lead into an enclosed sleeping chamber.
Reason for designation
Well- preserved C19 pigsty, having group value with the listed Farmhouse and the Cider House at Upper White Castle, White Castle ruins and the other listed buildings at White Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Cider House and attached Outhouse at Upper White CastleNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Upper White Castle FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White Castle CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White Castle RuinsDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.