Pigsty at Gileston Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. Pigsty.

Pigsty at Gileston Manor

WRENN ID
drifting-pediment-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 2004
Type
Pigsty
Address
Pigsty at Gileston Manor, Barry, St. Athan
OS grid reference
ST 017 671
Coordinates
51.39474, -3.41378
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The pigsty at Gileston Manor is a 19th-century structure made of whitewashed local lias limestone rubble and topped with a Welsh slate roof. It is a long rectangular building featuring a single pitch roof and is divided into four pens, each with its own doorway and a small yard enclosed by walls approximately 1.5 meters high. The interiors of the pigsty are plain and have remained unchanged.

Local climate

Pigsty at Gileston Manor sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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