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back house
noun
Any outbuilding; an outhouse.
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And then there was the back house.
As part of an agreement with the village to create a scenic easement for the windmill, Mr. Gardiner moved the back house to its current location; he did extensive foundation and exterior work, but never completed the interior.
A lack of skilled workers, such as joiners and bricklayers, is holding back house building after the government's Help to Buy initiative boosted demand for new homes, Britain's biggest housebuilding firm has said.
There are rooms devoted to the history and literature of the English, the French, and the Russians; the back house is full of reference books for McMurtry's Western novels and screenplays, and of his prized collection of women's travel literature.
From increasing promotions to bringing back house brands like St. John's Bay, Myron E. Ullman III, the new C.E.O., is erasing most of the changes made by Ronald B. Johnson, the former Apple retail head who started with much fanfare in 2011.
Mr. Gardiner, known as Bill, and his wife, Karie, relocated to East Hampton from Florida, and from 1994 to 2007 moved into and planned the renovation of both homes — first the front house, where the kitchen and bathrooms date to the 1920s, and then the back house, which was originally a garage and servants' quarters.
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There's a sense that San Francisco's excess is peaking; investors asking for their money back, house-flipping seminars popping up across Facebook, and gold-flaked pizza signal the end of times.
This is most likely related to the same factors holding back housing.
It is a process of spontaneous and diffuse back housing which involves the recovery of abandoned rural settlements, or the spread of new single-family homes primarily.
They replaced run down back to back houses.
In Alan Bennett's 1980 play Enjoy, the last back-to-back house in Leeds is demolished and reconstructed brick by brick in a museum – with Mam still living in it as a part of the exhibit.
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