Hennery-Piggery and attached Privy

Lunds Farm, Dent, Sedbergh, LA10 5SZ

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Hen and pig house with attached privy, mid to late-C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1442060
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-2017
List Entry Name:: Hennery-Piggery and attached Privy
Statutory Address:: Lunds Farm, Dent, Sedbergh, LA10 5SZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1442060
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-2017
List Entry Name:: Hennery-Piggery and attached Privy
Statutory Address 1:: Lunds Farm, Dent, Sedbergh, LA10 5SZ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Lunds Farm, Dent, Sedbergh, LA10 5SZ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dent
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD6944388765

Summary

Hen and pig house with attached privy, mid to late-C19.

Reasons for Designation

This hennery-piggery of mid to late-C19 date is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural: an intact hennery-piggery in the local vernacular which retains a suite of diagnostic features; * Rarity: a good example of an increasingly rare form of small multi-functional animal housing nationally; * Original layout: it retains its original two-level layout with attached privy, and its original form and function are easily readable; * Regional diversity and character: a farm building type characteristic of this region, which illustrates the diversity of past farming practice in England.

History

A hennery-piggery, sometimes called a poultiggery, is a combined stone-built hen house and piggery; it housed pigs on the ground floor and hens were kept in a loft above. It was thought that the hens would keep the pigs warm and the pigs would frighten away predators such as foxes. This example at Lunds Farm is not depicted on the first edition 1:10,560 Ordnance Survey map of the area surveyed in 1848, but it is shown on the subsequent Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1892-3. Therefore the map evidence suggests that the building was constructed between these two dates and is mid to late-C19 in date.

Details

Hen and pig house with attached privy, mid to late-C19.

MATERIALS: rubble sandstone, graduated stone slate roof with clay ridge tiles.

PLAN: L-shaped with piggery to ground floor and hennery to first floor; attached privy to east end.

EXTERIOR: two storey traditional animal housing with a pitched roof and stonework laid in courses with large quoins. The south elevation has a low ground floor entry to the piggery at the left end, and there is stone stepped ladder access to the hennery through a central rectangular bird hole situated immediately below the eaves. The scar of a former small lean-to building is visible in the wall at the right end. The east gable has a soil hole now blocked, and the west gable has a tall, first floor door reached by a stone-built platform accessed by a set of stone steps. The entrance is fitted with an historic plank door. The rear elevation of the animal housing is blind, but the inset rear elevation of the privy has an entrance with a crude lintel fitted with a C20 door.

INTERIOR: the ground floor retains at least one of the original joists while others have been replaced. The first floor has timber fittings in the form of perches parallel to the south wall and the remains of nest boxes against the north wall. Both pitches of the roof structure have been replaced with sawn timbers. There is plaster or lime wash to all interior walls. The double privy has a stone flagged front and wooden tops.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 September 2021 to correct a website link in Selected sources

Sources

Books and journals
Brunskill, R W , Traditional Farm Buildings in England, (1987), 79
Denyer, S, Traditional Buildings and Life in The Lake District, (1991), 108-9
Websites
National Character Area 21 Yorkshire Dales, accessed 01/09/2021 from https://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/10/traditionalfarmbuildingsurvey-yorkshire-dales.pdf
National Farm Building Types, accessed 20-12-2016 from https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/national-farm-building-types/national-building-types-2014.pdf/

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.