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Latitude: 51.6205 / 51°37'13"N
Longitude: -4.245 / 4°14'41"W
OS Eastings: 244682
OS Northings: 193685
OS Grid: SS446936
Mapcode National: GBR GR.0Y1Q
Mapcode Global: VH3MP.CJQL
Plus Code: 9C3QJQC4+62
Entry Name: Circular Pigsty near Pill House
Listing Date: 3 March 2000
Last Amended: 3 March 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22884
Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence
ID on this website: 300022884
Location: At left of path north from Frog Lane to Pill House.
County: Swansea
Town: Swansea
Community: Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton (Llangynydd, Llanmadog a Cheriton)
Community: Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
Locality: Llanmadoc village
Built-Up Area: Llanmadoc
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: House
Possibly C18, but lacking dateable detail. It appears to be shown on the 1878 map. A rare survival of a simple vernacular structure; compare a less well preserved Gower example at James Grove, Pennard. There is a fine mid-Glamorgan example from Hendre Ifan Prosser now rebuilt at St Fagan's Museum. About 30 such pigsties have been found in South Wales.
A small corbelled circular rubble stone structure brought to a rough dome at top, in local limestone. Overall about 2½ metres tall and about 2 metres diameter. At the south there is a small opening with a stone lintel. The bottom 1.4 metres is approximately vertical, ending with a course of thin stones at the same level as the opening lintel, then above that the sides gradually corbel inwards. Extending about 2 metres to the south side are remnants of a small yard wall discernible in the undergrowth.
A very rare survival of a once-common type of farm building, using an ancient building technique
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