SNN107124 - Historic Building Recording for The Piggery, Stanford Hall, Stanford-On-Avon, Leicestershire

Historic Building Recording of The Piggery in 2010 towards a parkland management plan as part of a High Level Stewardship agreement. The brick single storey range, with a hipped slate roof, has been built on top of a substantial earlier lias stone wall 560mm thick and approx. 1.5m high, visible along the north elevation. The range is likely to have been constructed in the mid 19th Century. It is made up of five rooms in a row facing south, with a late 19th Century mono-pitched extension at the west end, built at a right-angle to the south elevation. Whilst described as a ‘piggery’ this use is questioned as internal walls are lime plastered. The second room from the east has a fireplace and remains of ceiling joints (once plastered) implying perhaps a domestic or workshop/mess room use. It is possible that the rooms were a Bothy for gardeners or other estate workers. The late 19th Century extension also contains a fireplace and plastered ceiling, but with a china sink is more likely to have been the gardeners’ mess room.