Pigsty in the Garden of Covert Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1985. Pigsty.
Pigsty in the Garden of Covert Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-wattle-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Pigsty
- Address
- Pigsty in the Garden of Covert Cottage, Saintbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 116 397
- Coordinates
- 52.05616, -1.83153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pigsty in the garden of Covert Cottage is a Grade II listed structure. It consists of a pigsty and an attached former earth closet, which is now used as a store. The building is constructed from coursed, squared, and dressed limestone, topped with a limestone slate roof. The pigsty is L-shaped with a single entrance on the left side. The store, which is attached to the right, projects forward and features a door on the left and another in the right gable end.
Local climate
Pigsty in the Garden of Covert Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings