Piggery and Attached Wall at Methleigh Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1979. Agricultural building.
Piggery and Attached Wall at Methleigh Farm
- WRENN ID
- second-spindle-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1979
- Type
- Agricultural building
- Address
- Piggery and Attached Wall at Methleigh Farm, Breage Road, Porthleven
- OS grid reference
- SW 623 264
- Coordinates
- 50.09024, -5.32333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piggery at Methleigh Farm, built in the mid-19th century, is a single-storey structure featuring a range of six sties. Constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings, it has a grouted scantle slate roof. The front of the building has six doorways fitted with 20th-century planked doors that retain their original hinges and other hardware. The rear includes six feeding hatches and four slit ventilators. Inside, the floors are cobbled, and there are granite troughs along with the original roof structure supported by nailed collars.
A notable feature is a rubble wall that runs at right angles in front of the building on the right, which has a splayed design and includes a gate pier with a moulded head at the front end. This pier is similar to one found on the wall attached to the implement shed. The wall contains two openings and is accompanied by two troughs that were originally supplied with water from the mill leat. The water supply system at Methleigh, which serves the mill, farm buildings, house, and gardens, is a significant achievement in planning and engineering, likely the most complex of its kind in Cornwall.
Local climate
Piggery and Attached Wall at Methleigh Farm receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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