Circular pigsty at Pen-yr-esgym is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 March 2003. Pigsty.
Circular pigsty at Pen-yr-esgym
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-quoin-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2003
- Type
- Pigsty
- Address
- Circular pigsty at Pen-yr-esgym, Mynydd Carnllechart, Swansea, Pontardawe
- OS grid reference
- SN 680 083
- Coordinates
- 51.75844, -3.91255
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a circular pigsty located at Pen-yr-esgym, built with rough rubble stone and featuring a grouted domed roof. The pigsty has an external diameter of about 3 meters and stands approximately 2 meters high. It includes a dressed stone slab lintel and jambs for a low animal entry on the west side.
Local climate
Circular pigsty at Pen-yr-esgym sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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