What's the difference between outbuilding and washhouse?
Outbuilding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outbuild
(n.) A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The remote Heydalur hot pot in the Westfjords Eventually the hotel Heydalur (doubles from £59) appears, a hillside of random outbuildings.
(2) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(3) If the river is safe to cross, then do so and make the short few steps past the barn and outbuildings up to Glencoul bothy.
(4) Derby city council said demolition was likely to take up to two weeks, beginning with the outbuildings and roofing structures.
(5) Men, women and children smiled with relief on reaching German soil, and police shepherded them from the platform to a station outbuilding to be registered.
(6) To protect them, French and Swiss farmers who constructed Alpine farms, mainly between 1776 and 1828, also added a separate outbuilding, raised to prevent rodents getting in, and out of the reach of potential flames.
(7) The farm was bought by Mather's family 60 years ago: now, HS2 will take away 19 of their 23 acres, and 60% of land that they rent close by, along with their farmhouse and outbuildings.
(8) A bit later, I was standing in the yard in a pair of borrowed wellies when the single crack of a high-velocity rifle - like a wooden ruler snapped across the knee - echoed around the walls of the outbuildings.
(9) Peel's is probably the most celebrated record collection in Britain: 26,000 albums, 40,000 singles and countless CDs, which spread out of Peel's office and took over a variety of rooms and outbuildings in the home near Stowmarket he invariably referred to as Peel Acres.
(10) The house used to be owned by the Wrigley family – of chewing gum fame – and the poppers are produced in outbuildings on the property’s acre of land before being distributed to wholesalers around the world.
(11) 6km from Odeceixe beach Newly opened this summer, Monte West Coast is a 50-hectare estate in a lush valley where an old watermill and outbuildings on the Seixe river have been converted into six stylish self-catering houses (sleeping between two and six; two have fridges but no kitchen).
(12) Along with some outbuildings on a Syrian airfield, conservative media was set alight.
(13) He joined an outcry in the area after the charity bought the land and sheep of Thorneythwaite farm, but not its farmhouse or outbuildings, last month.
(14) Weald of Kent already gets a lot of girls from Sevenoaks.” But for Mary Boyle, head of Knole academy, one of two all-ability schools in Sevenoaks, “an annexe is an outbuilding or a shed on the school property.
(15) If you do smell petrol fumes in a garage or outbuilding ventilate the area and make sure nobody smokes or turns electrical switches on or off.
(16) The property, acquired by the family in 1871, was originally set in gardens laid out to "provide the typical charms of both the Greek and English countryside" and, as such, comes with some 40 outbuildings, stables, a swimming pool and several royal graves.
(17) The house is set among trees, behind an unlocked gate, and there are ramshackle outbuildings covered in creepers.
(18) The fire has destroyed four homes and 12 outbuildings and was only 2% contained as of Friday.
(19) This indicated the presence of infective eggs of the parasite inside the house and outbuildings, an important observation concerning the circulation of the parasite in a domestic environment.
(20) He showed us around his hive-making workshop and the outbuilding where his lovely raw honey is stored.
Washhouse
Definition:
(n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a chaotic and crumbling former public washhouse in a rundown district of northern Paris , Inna Shevchenko was explaining how a large leather punchbag hanging from the rafters might be used by the foot soldiers of a new generation of feminists.
(2) A heated washhouse is nearby, and glampers get full use of the rooms in the main house, where communal breakfasts are served, until noon.