Piggery About 15 Metres North West Of Bosvathick Farmhouse

SW 73 SE CONSTANTINE

6/13 Piggery about 15 metres north west - of Bosvathick Farmhouse

GV II

Piggery. Late C19. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins and lintels. Slate hipped roof with black glazed ridge tiles. Corrugated asbestos on the rear slope. Long rectangular plan facing the farmyard, the eight pigstys with 4 pairs of doorways at the front and a feeding passage along the back with a doorway at the right hand end. At the left hand end a separate room with a wide doorway on the left hand end wall with double doors; this may have been a store or preparation room. The doorways have plank doors. Interior is complete with slate partitions separating each sty; over the slate partitions there are strips of timber capping. The piggery is open to the roof which has a nailed soft wood structure. Part of a remarkably complete and unaltered late C19 farmstead built on the small Bosvathick estate.

Listing NGR: SW7505330038