Hennery-Piggery and attached Privy

Hen and pig house with attached privy, mid to late-C19.

MATERIALS: rubble sandstone, graduated stone slate roof with clay ridge tiles.

PLAN: L-shaped with piggery to ground floor and hennery to first floor; attached privy to east end.

EXTERIOR: two storey traditional animal housing with a pitched roof and stonework laid in courses with large quoins. The south elevation has a low ground floor entry to the piggery at the left end, and there is stone stepped ladder access to the hennery through a central rectangular bird hole situated immediately below the eaves. The scar of a former small lean-to building is visible in the wall at the right end. The east gable has a soil hole now blocked, and the west gable has a tall, first floor door reached by a stone-built platform accessed by a set of stone steps. The entrance is fitted with an historic plank door. The rear elevation of the animal housing is blind, but the inset rear elevation of the privy has an entrance with a crude lintel fitted with a C20 door.

INTERIOR: the ground floor retains at least one of the original joists while others have been replaced. The first floor has timber fittings in the form of perches parallel to the south wall and the remains of nest boxes against the north wall. Both pitches of the roof structure have been replaced with sawn timbers. There is plaster or lime wash to all interior walls. The double privy has a stone flagged front and wooden tops.

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