Pigsties at Tidbury Green Farm

Pigsties, with pens, dating from the late C19.

MATERIALS: red brick, with blue brick detailing, and a plain clay tile roof.

PLAN: rectangular plan, with a swill tank to the northern bay and three pigsties with walled pens running southwards.

EXTERIOR: the building is a low single storey of four bays. The northernmost bay houses a swill tank, accessed by a low, rectangular opening in the main elevation. The other three bays are three pigsties, each with a semi-circular arched opening of bull-nosed brick, with a row of blue bricks in the voussoirs. Each sty has a pen to the front, with red brick walled with rounded-brick copings, the pens with dark brick setts to the floor, and built-in brick troughs. The southern gable end has a ventilator slit in the brickwork.

INTERIOR: the roof is formed from paired common rafters and a ridge plank.