Pig Sty Approximately 25 Metres To North-West Of Acorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Pig sty. 1 related planning application.
Pig Sty Approximately 25 Metres To North-West Of Acorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-obsidian-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Pig sty
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TONG C.P. SJ 80 NW 7/3
Bishop's Wood
OFFOXEY ROAD (North side).
Pig Sty approximately 25 metres to North-West of Acorn Cottage.
GV
II
Pig Sty. Circa 1818. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Neo-Egyptian style; square base with pyramid above. Coped base with low entrance to East, pyramid with tall rectangular openings, dressed stone pyramidal finial resting on short corner piers. Stone plaque to East inscribed: "TO PLEASE THE PIGS". This is one of a series of eccentric Gothic out-buildings erected on the Tong Estate by George Durant the younger (d.1844). Acorn Cottage to South (not listed) is dated 1818. (qv. Cow House to North of Acorn Cottage, fowl house to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse, kennels to East of the Red House, etc.).
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 February 2017.
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