Circular Pigsty at the Meadows is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 1995. Pigsty.
Circular Pigsty at the Meadows
- WRENN ID
- stony-parapet-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1995
- Type
- Pigsty
- Address
- Circular Pigsty at the Meadows, Tre-Aubrey, Llancarfan
- OS grid reference
- ST 038 724
- Coordinates
- 51.44266, -3.38443
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Circular Pigsty at the Meadows is a traditional 18th-century pigsty built from coursed liassic limestone rubble, showing some traces of limewash. It includes the remains of a pig pen with enclosing walls, also made of limestone. A stone stile is still present in the wall to the north of the pigsty.
Local climate
Circular Pigsty at the Meadows 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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