Pigsties and Yard Walls to North West of Hurdon Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1993. Pigsties.

Pigsties and Yard Walls to North West of Hurdon Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stranded-moat-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 June 1993
Type
Pigsties
Address
Pigsties and Yard Walls to North West of Hurdon Farmhouse, Hurdon Road, Launceston
OS grid reference
SX 333 827
Coordinates
50.6209, -4.35704
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a range of pigsties located to the northwest of Hurdon Farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-19th century. The structure is built from slatestone rubble, with cob used for the rear wall, and features rag slate roofs along with a rubble stack at the rear of the hipped end of the swill kitchen on the right. The pigsties have an L-shaped plan, with a rectangular courtyard situated in front of them. The building is single-storey, featuring four doors on the front and two doors on the left-hand return. The swill kitchen, which is accessible from outside the courtyard, has a door at the front. All openings are spanned by oak lintels. The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of a notable group of farm buildings at Hurdon Farm.

Local climate

Pigsties and Yard Walls to North West of Hurdon Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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