Privy About 35 Metres South of the Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Privy.
Privy About 35 Metres South of the Manor House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-gargoyle-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Privy
- OS grid reference
- ST 523 189
- Coordinates
- 50.96772, -2.67932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a six-seater privy located about 35 meters south of the Manor House, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings, topped by a pyramidal stone slate roof featuring a ball finial. The privy is a single-storey structure with a square plan, and the north elevation has three bays. It includes a central doorway with a simple beaded architrave and a four-fielded panel door, flanked by two small single-light windows that also have beaded architraves and rectangular leaded panes. The other sides of the building are plain.
Inside, there is a low plastered ceiling with exposed laths in vent panels and an elm boarded floor. Bench seats surround three sides, with two toilet holes for adults at the rear and holes for one adult and one child on the sides. The adults' holes have hinged lids, while the children's holes have wooden stoppers. Above the seats, there are fragments of 17th and 18th-century panelling, some of which are fielded, likely not part of the original structure. Below the floor, there is a drop into a now dry stream about 2.5 meters deep. The privy was in regular use until 1939.
Local climate
Privy About 35 Metres South of the Manor House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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