(historical) A leisure and cultural centre built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes.

The official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation.

(archaic) brothel

A haunted house attraction, typically run by a religious group, depicting the torments of the damned in hell.

(UK, historical) A bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges were commonly made for food, lodging, etc.

The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulfur and arsenic from the pyrites.

(obsolete) A brothel whose rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates.

A dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.

A kind of vernacular house of the Middle Ages, traditional in the United Kingdom and northern Europe, usually timber-framed, and having a hall as the central element.

Alternative form of chophouse