Privy About 35 Metres South Of The Manor House

ST51NW CHILTHORNE DOMER CP MAIN STREET (West side) 3/64 Privy, about 35 m south of the Manor House - GV II* Six-seater privy. Mid C18. Ham roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; pyramidal stone slate roof with ball finial. Single storey, square on plan: north elevation of 3 bays. Central doorway with simple beaded architrave and 4 fielded panel door, flanked by 2 small single light windows with similar beaded architraves, rectangular leaded panes. Other sides plain. Inside, a low plastered ceiling with exposed laths in vent panels, elm boarded floor; bench seats around 3 sides, with 2 toilet holes for adults at rear, and to sides holes for one adult and one child; the adults' holes have hinged lids, the childrens' wooden stoppers; above the seats fragments of C17 and C18 panelling, some fielded, probably not part of original building: drop under floor into now dry stream about 2.5 metres. Building in regular use until 1939.

Listing NGR: ST5239518921