Outbuilding, the Glossary
An outbuilding, sometimes called an accessory building or a dependency, is a building that is part of a residential or agricultural complex but detached from the main sleeping and eating areas.[1]
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84 relations: Barn, Barnyard, Bothy, Bunkhouse, Buttery (room), Carriage house, Chashitsu, Cider house, Cistern, Connected farm, Conservatory (greenhouse), Cookhouse, Corn crib, Cotton gin, Croft (land), Dairy, Dirty kitchen, Doghouse, Dovecote, Dugout (shelter), Fernery, Fire lookout tower, Floor plan, Folly, Forge, Garden hermit, Granary, Greenhouse, Grillkota, Gristmill, Grow house, Hameau de la Reine, Hay barrack, Hayloft, Hut, Ice house (building), Kiln, Lavoir, Lean-to, Malt house, Manger, Oast house, Orangery, Ornament (art), Outhouse, Parish granary, Pen, Pergola, Pineapple pit, Pit-house, ... Expand index (34 more) »
- Buildings and structures
Barn
A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. Outbuilding and barn are vernacular architecture.
Barnyard
A barnyard or farmyard is an enclosed or open yard adjoining a barn, and, typically, related farm buildings, including a farmhouse.
Bothy
A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. Outbuilding and bothy are vernacular architecture.
Bunkhouse
A bunkhouse is a barracks-like building that historically was used to house working cowboys on ranches, or loggers in a logging camp in North America.
Buttery (room)
A buttery was originally a large cellar room under a monastery, in which food and drink were stored for the provisioning of strangers and passing guests.
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Carriage house
A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack.
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Chashitsu
Chashitsu (茶室, "tea room") in Japanese tradition is an architectural space designed to be used for tea ceremony (chanoyu) gatherings.
Cider house
A cider house is an establishment that sells alcoholic cider for consumption on the premises.
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Cistern
A cistern is a space excavated in bedrock or soil designed for catching and storing water.
Connected farm
A connected farm is an architectural design common in the New England region of the United States, and England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
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Conservatory (greenhouse)
A conservatory is a building or room having glass or other transparent roofing and walls, used as a greenhouse or a sunroom.
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Cookhouse
A cookhouse is a small building where cooking takes place.
Corn crib
A corn crib or corncrib is a type of granary used to dry and store corn.
Cotton gin
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
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Croft (land)
A croft is a traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon.
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Dairy
A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold.
Dirty kitchen
A dirty kitchen is an outdoor kitchen in the Philippines, Kuwait, Bahrain and many other West Asian countries either separate from or adjoining the main house, with the reasons for its isolation or separation including fire safety, keeping the smoke and fuel smell out, and keeping charcoal dust and oil grime out.
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Doghouse
A doghouse, also known as a kennel, is an outbuilding to provide shelter for a dog from various weather conditions.
Dovecote
A dovecote or dovecot, doocot (Scots) or columbarium is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves.
Dugout (shelter)
A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. Outbuilding and dugout (shelter) are vernacular architecture.
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Fernery
A fernery is a specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.
Fire lookout tower
A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness.
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Floor plan
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.
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Folly
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Forge
A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.
Garden hermit
Garden hermits or ornamental hermits were people encouraged to live alone in purpose-built hermitages, follies, grottoes, or rockeries on the estates of wealthy landowners, primarily during the 18th century.
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Granary
A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Outbuilding and granary are vernacular architecture.
Greenhouse
A greenhouse is a special structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside.
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Grillkota
A Grillkota (literally grill goahti) is a small structure with seating centred around an open wood or charcoal-fired grill, originating among Sámi reindeer herders in Scandinavia.
Gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.
Grow house
A grow house is a property, usually located in a suburban residential neighbourhood, that is primarily used for the black market production of marijuana, it may be used for the cultivation of other drugs such as psilocybin mushrooms.
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Hameau de la Reine
The Hameau de la Reine (The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France.
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Hay barrack
A hay barrack (haybarrack) is an open structure with a movable roof for storing loose hay on a farm. Outbuilding and hay barrack are vernacular architecture.
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Hayloft
A hayloft is a space above a barn, stable or cow-shed, traditionally used for storage of hay or other fodder for the animals below.
Hut
A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials. Outbuilding and hut are vernacular architecture.
Ice house (building)
An ice house, or icehouse, is a building used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator. Outbuilding and ice house (building) are vernacular architecture.
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Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.
Lavoir
A lavoir (wash-house) is a public place set aside for the washing of clothes.
Lean-to
A lean-to is a type of simple structure originally added to an existing building with the rafters "leaning" against another wall.
Malt house
A malt house, malt barn, or maltings, is a building where cereal grain is converted into malt by soaking it in water, allowing it to sprout and then drying it to stop further growth. Outbuilding and malt house are vernacular architecture.
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Manger
A manger or trough is a rack for fodder, or a structure or feeder used to hold food for animals.
Oast house
An oast, oast house or hop kiln is a building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process. Outbuilding and oast house are vernacular architecture.
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Orangery
An orangery or orangerie is a room or dedicated building, historically where orange and other fruit trees are protected during the winter, as a large form of greenhouse or conservatory.
Ornament (art)
In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object.
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Outhouse
An outhouse is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet.
Parish granary
Parish granaries (sockenmagasin, pitäjänmakasiini) were communal granaries established in Sweden and Finland during the 18th and 19th century.
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Pen
A pen is a common writing instrument that applies ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing.
Pergola
A pergola is most commonly an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained.
Pineapple pit
A pineapple pit is a method of growing pineapples in colder climates.
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Pit-house
A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter.
Potato house
A potato house is a structure built for the storage of harvested potatoes or sweet potatoes.
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Poultry farming
Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food.
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Public bathing
Public baths originated when most people in population centers did not have access to private bathing facilities.
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Pumping station
Pumping stations, also called pumphouses, are public utility buildings containing pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
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Radio shack
A radio shack is a room or structure used for housing radio equipment.
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Rice barn
A rice barn is a type of barn used worldwide for the storage and drying of harvested rice.
Root cellar
A root cellar (American and Canadian English), fruit cellar (Mid-Western American English) or earth cellar (British English) is a structure, usually underground.
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Sauna
A sauna is a room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these facilities.
Shearing shed
Shearing sheds (or wool sheds) are large sheds located on sheep stations to accommodate large scale sheep shearing activities.
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Shed
A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure, often used for storage, for hobbies, or as a workshop, and typically serving as outbuilding, such as in a back garden or on an allotment.
Silo
A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials.
Slave quarters in the United States
Slave quarters in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery in the United States.
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Smokehouse
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke.
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A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.
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Spring house
A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring. Outbuilding and spring house are vernacular architecture.
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Stable
A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept.
Still
A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor.
Street food
Street food is food sold by a hawker or vendor on a street or at another public place, such as a market, fair, or park.
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Sty
A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising domestic pigs as livestock.
Sugar shack
A sugar shack (cabane à sucre), also known as sap house, sugar house, sugar shanty or sugar cabin is an establishment, primarily found in Eastern Canada and northern New England.
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Tankhouse
A tankhouse (also spelled tank house or tank-house) is a water tower enclosed by siding.
Threshing floor
Threshing (thrashing) was originally "to tramp or stamp heavily with the feet" and was later applied to the act of separating out grain by the feet of people or oxen and still later with the use of a flail.
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Tobacco barn
The tobacco barn, a type of functionally classified barn found in the USA, was once an essential ingredient in the process of air-curing tobacco.
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Tree house
A tree house, tree fort or treeshed, is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level.
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Vernacular architecture
Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.
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Walipini
A walipini is an earth-sheltered cold frame.
Water tower
A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.
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Weighing scale
A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or mass.
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Well
A well is an excavation or structure created in the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water.
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Windpump
A windpump is a wind-driven device which is used for pumping water.
Wine cave
Underground Wine cellars are subterranean structures for the storage and the aging of wine.
Wine cellar
A wine cellar is a storage room for wine in bottles or barrels, or more rarely in carboys, amphorae, or plastic containers.
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Winnowing barn
Winnowing barns (or winnowing houses) were structures commonly found in South Carolina on antebellum rice plantations.
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See also
Buildings and structures
- Autonomous building
- Baubotanik
- Building
- Cartel seat (monument)
- Commercial modular construction
- Field barn
- Hurricane-proof building
- Infrastructure
- Lists of buildings and structures
- Modular building
- Outbuilding
- Outfarm
- Prefabricated building
- Prefabricated buildings
- Real estate holdout
- Relocatable building
- Santa's workshop
- Skyscrapers
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbuilding
Also known as Accessory building, Carriage shed, Dependency (architecture), Outbuildings.
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