An indoor facility which disposes of waste down a shaft or exterior port, either to a cesspit or directly into the environment. Commonly used in medieval castles and other structures. [ Picture

A small latrine or toilet built into the thickness of a castle's wall.

A small building holding a lavatory. RCHME. Garderobes were fitted into the ground and first floors of Clifford's Tower. On the first floor the garderobe is in the west-facing bartizan.

A privy or loo. Usually hollowed out of the wall in a tower. Some garderobes had a chute that went down into a sewer pit; others just dumped into the moat.

a semi-open latrine

A small toilet built into a wall or sticking out of it.

A small latrine or toilet either built into the thickness of the wall or projected out from it; ; projects from the wall as a small, rectangular bartizan

A latrine, usually set over a stone shaft or drain.

a privy built in the wall of a medieval castle

A medieval lavatory. Shafts cut through the thickness of the wall.

Old-fashioned toilet.

Latrine; privy.

Toilets that empty into a stream or simply outside the walls; toilets outside the building

Latrine, garderobe Small latrine or toilet either built into the thickness of the wall or projected out from it. It is said that garments were stored in the Garderobe in the belief that the smell and draughts would deter clothes-moths.

A toilet built into the wall of a castle. Different types were built such as A-emptying via a chute, B-built into an overhanging part of the wall (both perhaps emptying into a moat), C-emptying into a cesspit which would eb emptied at regular intervals.

Garderobes were medieval toilets in large public buildings and castles. They were often holes in the outer walls of these buildings which dropped into cess pits or moats (depending on the structure of the building involved.) Many can still be seen (from the inside and out) in Norman and Tudor castles.