Pigsty at Ty-draw is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 December 2004. Pigsty.

Pigsty at Ty-draw

WRENN ID
western-entrance-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 December 2004
Type
Pigsty
Address
Pigsty at Ty-draw, Welsh St Donats, Cowbridge, Welsh St. Donats
OS grid reference
ST 043 753
Coordinates
51.46894, -3.3783
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The pigsty at Ty-draw is a Grade II listed building made of local limestone rubble. It has a circular shape and features a carefully constructed corbelled stone roof that ends in a knob. There is a narrow opening halfway up the dome for ventilation and a low doorway leading into the rectangular walled pen, which has a narrow gate. The interior remains unchanged since it was last in use.

Local climate

Pigsty at Ty-draw sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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