Garden Structure, Castle Hill, Blaise Castle Estate, Bristol: Archaeological Monitoring, Recording and Photogrammetric Survey

Monitoring volunteers clearing vegitation and modern debris The monitored works uncovered the remains of an oval 18th-century 'Gothick' style garden building built of roughly squared Carboniferous limestone, with brick and ornate Bath Stone details. The building, which is likely to have been single storey, was divided into two rooms: the larger room was circular and of uncertain purpose. This room is likely to have originally had a suspended wooden floor and timber- or lathe and plaster-lined walls. The smaller semi-circular room was a privy with a brick floor and a subterranean stone-lined cesspit. During the late 19th-century, two 'servant's basin' type water closets were installed. These were associated with an external brick-lined cesspit. The building was abandoned sometime after 1918. It was surveyed in 1997, by which time it had evidently been ruinous for many years.