Pig Sty at Cwm Biga is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 February 2005. Pig sty.
Pig Sty at Cwm Biga
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rood-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 February 2005
- Type
- Pig sty
- Address
- Pig Sty at Cwm Biga, Trefeglwys
- OS grid reference
- SN 859 891
- Coordinates
- 52.48808, -3.68162
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Pig Sty at Cwm Biga is a small single-storey building constructed of random stone and topped with a renewed slate roof featuring plain barge boards. It consists of two sties, each with doorways located at the gable ends. The eastern sty has a planked door that is offset to the left, situated beneath a timber lintel. There is also a pigeon hole with a projecting slate sill on the gable. Outside, there is a small pen with a cobbled floor, enclosed by an open wooden fence and featuring a gate at the front. The western sty has a similar setup, with its doorway offset to the right of the gable end. The interior was not seen during the resurvey.
Local climate
Pig Sty at Cwm Biga sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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