Pigsties at Blawdty is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 June 1998. Outbuilding.
Pigsties at Blawdty
- WRENN ID
- narrow-dormer-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1998
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Pigsties at Blawdty, Penycaerau, Pwllheli, Aberdaron
- OS grid reference
- SH 203 272
- Coordinates
- 52.81238, -4.66662
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The pigsties at Blawdty are a range of structures built from rubble stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring coped gables. They have a low front wall with three entrances beneath slab lintels; two of these entrances are paired on the left, while one is located on the right. There are low walls leading to three yards, two of which include broad slate feed chutes under long slab lintels. To the left, there is a slightly taller outbuilding that also has a slate roof, a stone chimney at one end, a door on the right, and a window on the left.
Local climate
Pigsties at Blawdty sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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