Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pig Sty at Tan y ffordd
Glantwymyn, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 5 August 2004
- Locality
- Cemmaes
- Community
- Glantwymyn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.63913, -3.72128
- Cadw reference
- 83036
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the garden to the N of Tan y ffordd.
History
Mid-late C19; not shown on the tithe map, but shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1891.
Exterior
A pair of pig sties of rubble stone under a slate roof. Full-height doorways grouped to centre with slate quoins. Pens with dividing wall and central square pier to front, flanked by narrow doorways. To L and R of the doorways are slate-lined chutes for depositing swill. The walls have large slate copings.
Reason for designation
Listed as a pig sty retaining its character and for group value with Cemmaes Bychan and Tan y ffordd.
Nearby in the register
- Tan y fforddNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cemmaes BychanDomesticunder 1 mi
- HendreNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- ArfrynNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.