Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Beehive Pigsty at Blaengwenffrwd Farm
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 15 February 1974
- Locality
- Upper Llanover
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76437, -3.04491
- Cadw reference
- 87222
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
On the north side of the Blaenavon road just before it leaves the Community at its western extremity.
History
Probably C18 but using an ancient construction type once used for human habitation. The walled yard was added in the C19 and has recently been repaired.
Exterior
Conical structure of corbelled stone, now clad externally in roughcast render. Added walled yard of rough red sandstone with cock-and-hen coping, plank door.
Interior
Featureless interior.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as an unusual surviving complete example of a corbelled roof pigsty of local type.
Nearby in the register
- Hendre-glynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of)Chapelunder 1 mi
- Goose and Cuckoo PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ffawydden Farmhouse and attached BarnDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.