Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pigsty at Gileston Manor
St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 3 September 2004
- Locality
- Gileston
- Town
- Barry
- Community
- St. Athan
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.39474, -3.41377
- Cadw reference
- 83124
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 home paddock about 100m north of Gileston Manor.
History
Built probably in the mid C19 and stands in the home paddock of Gileston Manor (qv).
Exterior
Built of whitewashed local lias limestone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. Long rectangular building with single pitch roof, divided into four pens each with its doorway and small yard surrounded by walls about 1.5m in height.
Interior
Interiors are plain but unchanged.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as part of a fine estate group at Gileston Manor.
Nearby in the register
- Cheesehouse at Gileston ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Block of Gileston ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls, and attached Summerhouse, of Walled Garden at Gileston ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Kitchen Garden Wall of Gileston ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.