Pigsty with Hen House West of Priory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Pigsty, hen house.

Pigsty with Hen House West of Priory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
mired-window-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1987
Type
Pigsty, hen house
Address
Pigsty with Hen House West of Priory Farmhouse, Muggleswick
OS grid reference
NZ 043 500
Coordinates
54.84525, -1.93387
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a pigsty with a hen house, dating from the mid to late 18th century, located west of Priory Farmhouse. It is constructed from irregular courses of sandstone rubble, featuring some quoins, and has a stone-flagged roof. The structure is single-storey and consists of two bays. On the left side, there is a blocked door with a flat stone lintel. The right return gable has a boarded door beneath a wooden lintel and a square hen-hole with a stone shelf at the peak of the gable. A rubble wall encloses an exercise yard on the right return.

Local climate

Pigsty with Hen House West of Priory Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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