Description

SZ 29 NE SWAY BARROWS LANE

13/9 Piggeries at Towers Farm
Arnewood 150m north-west
of Arnewood Court

GV II

Model pig farm. Circa 1880 for ATT Peterson. Mass concrete built in lifts,
including vaulted roofs which must have been built in-situ on formwork. Situated
behind Downlands Cottage, off Barrows Lane, a planned farm complex consisting of 3
rows of buildings set parallel on a north-west/south-east axis. Buildings of
different length but same form: single storey, 2 bays wide with moulded cornice
that runs along sides and at ends rises up along vault of roof. Various openings for
windows and doors and some chimneys (probably rendered brick). Derelict and in a poor
state of repair, one range suffered a sudden collapse in the early 1980s. These
buildings are important both as an example of early concrete construction, and as
an example of the late C19 planned pig farm.

Listing NGR: SP2974201942

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584497

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)