Mid 19th century piggery at Weston Hall, Weston End, Foxearth (EHER 80290)

The piggery was originally built between 1838 and 1876 as part of the expansion of the farm by the Victorian High Farmers.

April 2022. Level 2 building survey. The piggery was originally built between 1838 and 1876 as part of the expansion of the farm by the Victorian High Farmers. The piggery is designed with five pens, each originally having a timber doorframe and door which are long gone. The brick quoins have repairs and remodelling to cover damage by the pigs and to increases the openings as the pigs got bigger through good breeding. The bricks on the southern elevation are reds with creased faces, sharp arrises, and deep frogs. Loose bricks at the eastern end are marked Allen and Ballingdon (a suburb of Sudbury). The wash house (which is conjoined with the piggery) has a date plaque for 1850 which looks authentic. The roof is made with ridged cement boards that have been patched in places with corrugated iron. Each pen has a concrete floor. At least one bay has been removed from the eastern end and the end bay left open except for stack of loose bricks. The exposed rafters are machined softwood. The roof retains paired elm rafters and pole rafters from a mid 19th century simple pent roof that has been reinforced with MC20th machined softwood rafters and battens for the corrugated roof. <1>