Pigsties at Pen-Y-Bont Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1992. Bridge.
Pigsties at Pen-Y-Bont Farm
- WRENN ID
- pale-quartz-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1992
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Pigsties at Pen-Y-Bont Farm, Bro Machno, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 781 489
- Coordinates
- 53.02349, -3.81855
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The pigsties at Pen-Y-Bont Farm date from the 19th century and feature a standard 'in and out' design. They include inner covered sleeping areas and small yards. The building has a double pitch slate roof, with the front slope facing the house and yard, which is lower than the rear slope over the doors to the covered accommodation. The walls are built from local stone, and there are boundary walls enclosing the small yards.
Local climate
Pigsties at Pen-Y-Bont Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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