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Pig Sty and Store Block at Ty'n-y-Ddol

Llandderfel, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Llandderfel, Gwynedd, designated on 31 January 2001.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Pig Sty and Store Block at Ty'n-y-Ddol, Llandderfel, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Date of designation
31 January 2001
Locality
Llandderfel
Community
Llandderfel
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.91483, -3.52064
Cadw reference
24644

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 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 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Located immediately S of the house.

Pig sty and store block built c1815 by John Davies, Calvinistic Methodistic leader, as part of a home farm complex to serve his nearby house of Fronheulog.

L-shaped pigsty and store, with incorporated Ty Bach to the N; single storey. Of rubble construction with slated roof. The building consists of a central rectangular block with catslide projections to the R on each of the N and S sides, that to the N forming the Ty Bach and that to the S the pig sty. The latter has enclosing rubble pen walls to the front with 2 pens and plain entrances; incorporated feeding shoot to the L pen. The Ty Bach has a boarded entrance to the E; further entrance to the W gable end, with modern boarded door and boarded infill to the L; exposed timber lintel.

Listed as an early C19 pig sty and store retaining good original character as part of this interesting group.

Group value with other listed items at Ty'n-y-Ddol.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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