Pigsty at Upper House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Pigsty.
Pigsty at Upper House Farm
- WRENN ID
- eternal-merlon-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Pigsty
- Address
- Pigsty at Upper House Farm, Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 219 184
- Coordinates
- 51.85957, -3.13518
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The pigsty at Upper House Farm is a single-storey structure built from rubble. On the left side, it features four openings set into a whitewashed rubble wall, each with boarded doors. The roof is undulating and made of stone tiles, designed in a lean-to style.
To the right, there is a taller single-storey building with an attic. This part has a whitewashed rubble front and a rubble rear, topped with a slate roof, which is partly corrugated on the rear pitch. The front has overhanging eaves, and there is a gabled entry on the left accessed by outside rubble steps. This section includes pivot windows and a boarded door, as well as a broad opening to the left that leads to the rear. The roof has been raised at the left rear, where a lean-to extension is present.
Inside, the building retains its original roof construction, featuring dowelled timbers and tenoned purlins.
Local climate
Pigsty at Upper House Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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