Description

SW 73 SE CONSTANTINE

6/13 Piggery about 15 metres north west
- of Bosvathick Farmhouse

GV II

Piggery. Late C19. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins and lintels. Slate
hipped roof with black glazed ridge tiles. Corrugated asbestos on the rear slope.
Long rectangular plan facing the farmyard, the eight pigstys with 4 pairs of doorways
at the front and a feeding passage along the back with a doorway at the right hand
end. At the left hand end a separate room with a wide doorway on the left hand end
wall with double doors; this may have been a store or preparation room. The doorways
have plank doors.
Interior is complete with slate partitions separating each sty; over the slate
partitions there are strips of timber capping. The piggery is open to the roof which
has a nailed soft wood structure.
Part of a remarkably complete and unaltered late C19 farmstead built on the small
Bosvathick estate.

Listing NGR: SW7505330038

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434969

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)