Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pig Sty at Berthlwyd Farm
Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 26 February 2001
- Locality
- Berthlwyd
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Community
- Pontypridd
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58368, -3.33147
- Cadw reference
- 24886
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 the farm yard on the E side of the house. Berthlwyd Farm is an upland farm S of Treforest, reached by farm road on the E side of a minor road from Pontypridd to Church Village.
Exterior
A round corbelled pigsty of c1800, with rubble-stone walls and conical slab roof covered with render leading to a flat cap. It has a single opening under a slab lintel. A drystone former field wall is attached on the E side, while the rounded pen wall is rebuilt and was originally straight.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the few surviving corbelled pigsties in Glamorgan, a venerable type of construction once common in the region.
Nearby in the register
- Newbridge Beam EngineBeam Engineunder 1 mi
- Forest House, University of GlamorganEducationunder 1 mi
- Workshop NW of Tinning House at Treforest Tinplate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Casting House and Workshop at Treforest Tinplate WorksCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.