Pighouse to West of Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1987. Pig house.
Pighouse to West of Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-granite-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1987
- Type
- Pig house
- Address
- Pighouse to West of Ivy Cottage, Blisland
- OS grid reference
- SX 098 732
- Coordinates
- 50.52834, -4.68398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pig house located to the west of Ivy Cottage is a structure dating from the early 19th century, now repurposed as a wood store. It is built from stone rubble and features large quoins, topped with a rag slate roof that has gable ends. The building has a rectangular, single-cell plan with a central entrance, which likely originally included a feeding hole at the rear. It is a low, single-storey building with plank double doors at the center. This pig house is part of a group that includes Ivy Cottage and Lemon Cottage.
Local climate
Pighouse to West of Ivy Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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