My Grandmother did not have a Great Hall of Easement, but she did have a small hall of easement, a two holer called the out house. Out of her hearing, we called it the shit house, but excepting the difference in size, it must have been very similar to Hampton Court’s edifice.
Indoor plumbing with an indoor toilet, came to MaMa’s house in the early 60’s, so my generation was the last to experience the real thing.
I stayed at my cousins in Dehue WV many times in the late 40s early 50s. Their home was 3 rooms and path
/Indoor plumbing with an indoor toilet, came to MaMa’s house in the early 60’s, so my generation was the last to experience the real thing.
My sister and I spent a summer on a Virginia farm belonging to acquaintances of my grandmother, who was from the same area, but had moved to DC many years before. They had electricity, but no indoor plumbing. We actually used catalog pages for toilet paper and had chamber pots for use at night. This would have been around 1960-65.
In the late 70’s, I went to grad school with a woman from the eastern shore of Maryland. She did not have plumbing, even then.