Toilet and Cottage at Goblin Coombe Campsite is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 2004. Holiday cottage. 1 related planning application.
Toilet and Cottage at Goblin Coombe Campsite
- WRENN ID
- eastward-alcove-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 2004
- Type
- Holiday cottage
- Address
- Toilet and Cottage at Goblin Coombe Campsite, Cleevehill Road, BS40 5PP
- OS grid reference
- ST 468 651
- Coordinates
- 51.38316, -2.76486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Toilet and Cottage at Goblin Coombe Campsite is a former holiday cottage built around 1922, now part of the campsite. The building features brick walls with external rendering and a slate roof. It is a single-storey structure with a full-width verandah at the front, supported by timber posts. The far left end is filled in with weather-boarding, which extends to a flat-roofed, single-storey, weather-boarded room. There are short brick chimney stacks at both ends of the rendered section. The central entrance has a cast iron plaque above the doorway that reads "MARJORIE SKINNER CAMP," along with the initials of her parents, "MMS" and "WHS," placed diagonally in the bottom corners. The door is flanked by two tall two-light casement windows. An additional parallel range was added to the rear of the building in the later 20th century.
Inside, the cottage has a two-room plan. In the right-hand room, there is a brick fireplace with a circular dedication plaque above it, which includes Marjorie Skinner's name and the dates "1919-1922."
The campsite was established by the Reverend and Mrs. Skinner following their daughter's death from tuberculosis in 1922. Its purpose was to provide underprivileged families from Bristol with the chance to holiday in the countryside. The building reflects the social efforts of the 1920s to address health and fitness issues, as seen in the design features like the verandah and large window openings. It is an early example of philanthropic holiday camp accommodation.
Local climate
Toilet and Cottage at Goblin Coombe Campsite receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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