Piggery and Swill Kitchen Immediately North of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Piggery, swill kitchen.
Piggery and Swill Kitchen Immediately North of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-tracery-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Piggery, swill kitchen
- Address
- Piggery and Swill Kitchen Immediately North of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse, Zennor
- OS grid reference
- SW 432 372
- Coordinates
- 50.17943, -5.59752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a piggery and swill kitchen, located immediately north of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse, and is likely from the 18th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and features a grouted scantle slate roof. A dressed granite chimney is positioned over the left-hand (northeast) gable end. The structure consists of a long, shallow-depth range built in two phases. On the left side is a swill kitchen that has a doorway at the rear and a small window at the front, along with a single pigs' house that includes a low pigs' doorway at the front and a doorway for a person at the rear. The right side is a slightly deeper three-cell building with small windows at the front and doorways at the rear. The far-right pigs' house has a curved front wall that follows the bend of the road and is roofed with granite slabs. The pigs' doorway is located at the far right, next to the gable end of Higher Porthmeor Old Farmhouse. The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of an unspoiled coastal hamlet set within the ancient field system of this area in Cornwall.
Local climate
Piggery and Swill Kitchen Immediately North of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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