Pigstye Range with Yard Walls and Attached Shelter Shed at Hookend Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1990. Pigstye range.

Pigstye Range with Yard Walls and Attached Shelter Shed at Hookend Farm

WRENN ID
tattered-attic-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 July 1990
Type
Pigstye range
Address
Pigstye Range with Yard Walls and Attached Shelter Shed at Hookend Farm, Basildon
OS grid reference
SU 592 777
Coordinates
51.49542, -1.14815
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a pigstye range with an attached shelter shed, dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with the shelter shed and the front of the pigstye range being timber framed and featuring weatherboard cladding on a brick plinth. The roofs are covered with plain tiles.

The pigstye range is a single storey and consists of five bays, with brick yards located at the front and a four-bay shelter shed attached to the rear right. On the east elevation of the pigstye range, there are stable doors and feeding-trough chutes integrated into the front yard walls of the four right-hand bays, while the left bay has a board door leading into the front yard. The yard walls are topped with founded brick coping. Each gable has a door framed in chamfered brick that leads to a rear passage, and the eaves are lower at the front. There is also a narrow rear door.

The shelter shed is open-fronted and supported by jowelled posts, featuring braced collared tie-beam roof trusses. The right gable is half-hipped and includes a small-pane window. Originally, the shelter shed had a weatherboarded front wall. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Pigstye Range with Yard Walls and Attached Shelter Shed at Hookend Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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