'Beehive' Pigsty at Blaengwenffrwd Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 February 1974. Agricultural.
'Beehive' Pigsty at Blaengwenffrwd Farm
- WRENN ID
- mired-tracery-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1974
- Type
- Agricultural
- Address
- 'Beehive' Pigsty at Blaengwenffrwd Farm, Upper Llanover, Abergavenny, Llanover, Monmouthshire
- OS grid reference
- SO 279 078
- Coordinates
- 51.76438, -3.04492
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Beehive Pigsty at Blaengwenffrwd Farm is a conical structure made of corbelled stone, which is now covered on the outside with roughcast render. There is an added walled yard constructed from rough red sandstone, featuring cock-and-hen coping and a plank door. The interior of the pigsty is featureless.
Local climate
'Beehive' Pigsty at Blaengwenffrwd Farm receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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