Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Row of Pigsties at Llechan-uchaf
Henryd, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llechwedd, Conwy, Henryd, designated on 8 October 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1981
- Locality
- Llechwedd
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Henryd
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26357, -3.86810
- Cadw reference
- 3288
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 · 94 Beaumaris (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Llechan-uchaf is in the Gyffin Valley some 2km NW of Henryd. The pigsties are built into a retaining wall above a field known as Cae Moch immediately to the rear of the farm courtyard.
History
There is no real dating evidence for these firmly vernacular structures, but they are likely to be no later than the later C18 and could be considerably earlier.
Exterior
A rough stone rubble retaining wall contains 8 entries to small rectangular stone lined cells or pigsties with corbelled flat stone roofs.
Reason for designation
Listed as a large group of exceptionally well-preserved pigsties of a vernacular type which is now rare.
Nearby in the register
- Farmbuildings at Llechan-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hen-dy Farmhouse including attached outbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement at Gwern EnganHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Cefn Llechen Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.