Circular pigsty at Craig Fawr Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 January 1988. Pigsty.
Circular pigsty at Craig Fawr Farm
- WRENN ID
- fading-chancel-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1988
- Type
- Pigsty
- Address
- Circular pigsty at Craig Fawr Farm, Garnswllt, Mawr
- OS grid reference
- SN 621 080
- Coordinates
- 51.75454, -3.99911
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The circular pigsty at Craig Fawr Farm is built from dry rubble stone, featuring thin flat stones that are arranged in courses and slightly corbelled in each course, creating a beehive-domed shape. It has a single door with a stone slab lintel and sill, and the sides of the structure taper slightly. In front of the pigsty, there is a dry stone wall that is arranged in an L-plan.
Local climate
Circular pigsty at Craig Fawr Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings