Pigsty, Lochside, Westray is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2001.
Pigsty, Lochside, Westray
- WRENN ID
- nether-grate-torch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2001
- OS grid reference
- HY 474 456
- Coordinates
- 59.29426, -2.92457
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a late 19th-century structure consisting of a circular pigsty and a single-storey shed, both featuring rubble flagstones.
The pigsty has a doorway facing east and a rectangular yard in front. It is topped with a conical roof made of rubble flagstones.
The shed has a door on the south side and plain gable ends. At the rear, there is a low lean-to shed with a pitched roof, crude crowstepped gables, and large stone slabs covering the roof. The roof also includes a single glazing pane.
Local climate
Pigsty, Lochside, Westray sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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