Pigsty at Upper White Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 2000. Pigsty.
Pigsty at Upper White Castle
- WRENN ID
- turning-niche-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 October 2000
- Type
- Pigsty
- Address
- Pigsty at Upper White Castle, Abergavenny, Whitecastle
- OS grid reference
- SO 380 166
- Coordinates
- 51.84536, -2.90065
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The pigsty at Upper White Castle consists of three 19th-century pigsties arranged in a linear formation. The walls are made of rubble stone, and they feature a gabled slate roof with a tile ridge. Each pigsty has a small front yard surrounded by stone walls topped with flat coping. The front wall of each yard includes a square stone feeding shoot, which is now blocked. At the back of each yard, there are doorways that lead into an enclosed sleeping chamber.
Local climate
Pigsty at Upper White Castle receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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