common house

common house (plural common houses)

1. (obsolete) A guildhall.
2. (obsolete) A town or city hall.
3. (Politics, obsolete) The House of Commons.
4. (architecture, obsolete) The calefactory: the site of the common fire of a medieval monastery.
5. (obsolete) An outhouse.
6. (obsolete) A brothel.

• (guild hall): See guildhall
• (town hall): See town hall
• (Commons): See House of Commons
• (site of the shared monastic fire): See calefactory
• (outhouse): commons, House of Commons; see also Thesaurus:outhouse
• (brothel): See Thesaurus:brothel

• house (partly structural only)

• "† common house, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.