"house of office" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1660 20 October, Samuel Pepys, diary",
          "text": "Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped."
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          "ref": "1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter",
          "text": "I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans."
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          "ref": "1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XI, §xl, ll. 123 f",
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