1301 in W. Brown Yorks. Lay Subsidy (1894) 59 (MED) Thoma del Houtehous.

a1350 (a1325) St. Cecilia (Ashm.) 218 in Yale Stud. in Eng. (1898) 3 88 (MED) Þe screwe..het þis maide take & lede hire to an out hous [a1450 Bodl. an hous].

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 697 (MED) Jn an out-hous, jn yrnen bende, Jt stood.

1533 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 39 The outhouse in the entreside.

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Cii^v Away from my house either lye in some of my out houses vntill the morning.

1648 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 212 All my houshold stuffe..and vtensills belonginge to my milhouse, stables, barnes, and all the outhouses.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 61 Our noblest Piles, and stateliest Rooms Are but Out-houses to our Tombs.

1708 Boston News-let. 7 June 2/2 A good Dwelling House, a Ware-house, two Barns, with other Out-houses convenient.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 143 Some obscure hole in a farmer's out-house.

1828 Justice Bayley in R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench VIII. 465 [The building] was not an outhouse, because it was not parcel of a dwelling-house.

1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 443 We have found the larva of an allied beetle, but nearly twice as large as that of D. lardarius, crawling up the side of an out-house.

1945 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 11 373 The planter's barns, fences, and outhouses were worthy matches for the residence.

1992 New Builder 13 Feb. 29/3 The first floor of the outhouse will store the stock from the cathedral bookshop.

2003 S. Constantine Wraiths Will & Pleasure vi. 89 Ulaume could see that behind the house were stables, outhouses, and a barn.

1819 W. Sewall Diary 14 June (1930) 53/1 Near the paddles or wheels which propel the vessel forward are two outhouses, which is a very great convenience.

1832 W. Irving Jrnl. Nov. (1919) III. 185 Old Spanish wooden building, with piazza—out houses—French buildings, with casement.

1921 H. Kephart Camping & Woodcraft (1928) i. xii. 210 If the well is near a stable or outhouse, or if dish~water is thrown near it, let it alone.

1968 C. Helmericks Down Wild River North i. xviii. 286 They still clung steadfastly to the old outhouse.

1990 V. Klinkenborg Last Fine Time iii. 76 It was a saloon with no extras, just a bar..and an indoor, unplumbed outhouse connected to the woodshed.

2005 E. Milton Tiger in Attic 10 There is no inside toilet on the farm, and even the paying guests have to make do with the chamber pot under the bed or use the outhouse.

1900 J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. 144 Out-houses (Charterhouse),—all the boarding houses except Sanderites, Verites, and Gownboys. The names of the eight out~houses are Girdlestonites, Lockites, [etc.].

1933 L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall 187 A tall, genial boy named Adams, belonging to another of the out-houses.

1961 Incorporated Statistician 11 31 Mr. Hastie considered that groups should be outhoused so that they could be close to the job. By and large..there was no advantage to be gained by centralisation.

1966 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Mar. 182/3 We are assured..by the Museum that care has been taken..to outhouse only books which are thought to be less frequently consulted.

1974 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 10/6 Because of the ‘crippling’ shortage of space, more than one million books had had to be ‘outhoused’ at Woolwich Arsenal.

1996 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 19 Apr. 18 It will herald the return to Bloomsbury of the museum's ethnographic collections currently..outhoused in Shoreditch.