Terrace Retaining Wall, Privy and Cess Pit Immediately South East of Lower Calamansack Farmhouse and Lower Calamansack Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Retaining wall.
Terrace Retaining Wall, Privy and Cess Pit Immediately South East of Lower Calamansack Farmhouse and Lower Calamansack Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-quoin-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Terrace Retaining Wall, Privy and Cess Pit Immediately South East of Lower Calamansack Farmhouse and Lower Calamansack Cottage, Constantine
- OS grid reference
- SW 743 267
- Coordinates
- 50.09799, -5.1568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The terrace retaining wall, privy, and cess pit located immediately southeast of Lower Calamansack Farmhouse and Lower Calamansack Cottage are likely from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with the privy probably rebuilt around the mid-19th century. The terrace retaining wall is situated directly in front of the farmhouse and cottage, constructed from slate rubble with granite coping. There is a flight of granite steps leading down to the garden, which was formerly an orchard.
At the center of the retaining wall, there is a square integral cess-pit featuring high shale walls with granite quoins and coping, along with granite steps for access. Above and behind the cess-pit, there is a pair of red brick privies that back onto the pit and connect to it through a stone-lined shaft. The privies have an asbestos slate hipped roof topped with red clay ridge tiles. One privy is designated for Lower Calamansack Farmhouse, while the other serves Lower Calamansack Cottage. The interior of one privy was inspected and contains a 20th-century W.C.
Local climate
Terrace Retaining Wall, Privy and Cess Pit Immediately South East of Lower Calamansack Farmhouse and Lower Calamansack Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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