Outhouse

Any house necessary for the purposes of Ilfe, in which the owner does not make his constant or principal residence, is an outhouse.

State v. O'Brien, 2 Root (Co.nn.) 516.

A smaller or subordinate building connected with a dwelling, usually detached from it and standing at a little distance from it, not intended for persons to live in, but to serve some purpose of convenience or necessity; as a bam, a dairy, a toolhouse, and the like.