Earth Closet East of the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Earth closet.

Earth Closet East of the Cottage

WRENN ID
calm-courtyard-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1987
Type
Earth closet
Address
Earth Closet East of the Cottage, Germoe
OS grid reference
SW 585 294
Coordinates
50.11581, -5.37883
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a detached earth closet located east of The Cottage, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features a dressed granite front, with the rest constructed from granite rubble and dressed granite quoins. The roof is made of scantle slate with gable ends and red clay ridge tiles.

The earth closet has a small single cell plan with a doorway on the south side. Inside, there is a seat along the rear wall designed for one bucket. The doorway on the south front is slightly right of the center. The interior retains its original wooden seat with a lid. This structure is a virtually complete 19th-century earth closet and is situated very close to the Church of Saint Germoe and Saint Germoe's Chair.

Local climate

Earth Closet East of the Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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 0.3°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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