Description

HELSTON

SW62NW BREAGE ROAD
631-1/1/9 Piggery and attached wall at
25/07/79 Methleigh Farm
(Formerly Listed as:
BRREAGE ROAD
Farmyard buildings including
watermill at Methleigh)

GV II

Piggery (range of 6 sties). Mid C19. Granite rubble with
granite dressings, grouted scantle slate roof. Shallow-depth
rectangular range with each sty divided by a rubble wall.
Single storey. Yard front has 6 doorways with C20 planked
doors with original hinges and other furniture. Rear has 6
feeding hatches and 4 slit ventilators. INTERIOR: cobbled
floors, granite troughs and original roof structure with
nailed collars. Subsidiary features: rubble wall at
right-angles in front on right, splayed and with gate pier
with moulded head at the front end (similar pier to wall
attached to implement shed (qv)). The wall has 2 openings and
there are 2 troughs originally filled by water from mill leat.
The water supply system at Methleigh, serving mill, farm
buildings, house and gardens, is a considerable feat of
planning and engineering and is probably the most complex of
its kind in Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW6238926418

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502740

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas