1583 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1989) (modernized text) V. 326 To Emme my wife my house, kitchen, the ‘outhowsing’ and yards called Fletcher's cottage.

1630 Ordinances & Direct. conc. Relief of Poor xi That no man harbour Rogues in their Barnes or Outhouseings.

1671 in J. Chamberlain Let. (1939) II. 91 Besides other conveniences of offices within doores, and of utter courts and out-housing abrode.

1701 London Gaz. No. 3720/4 There is a good House, Barns, Stabling, Outhousing.

1745 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 311 I Give and Bequeath unto my Other Two Sons..Barns Outhouseing Edifices ffences and all Other Appur[t]enances.

1803 R. Hodgkinson Jrnl. 14 Mar. in Lancashire Gentleman (1992) vi. 178 The Housing & Outhousing, taken altogether, is..the worst I ever saw upon so large a Farm.

1865 E. Waugh Goblin's Grave 9 Whether either of them belonged to the hall or its out-housing.

1920 Science 30 Jan. 97/1 Modern science, which has wisely built on firmer, though drier ground, must ultimately extend the foundations of all her out-housings down to the low water mark of this old shore.

1993 Population Stud. 47 341 Single men and women were regularly housed by farmers either in separate areas of the farmhouse or in farm outbuildings, or in bothies, or other out-housing specially constructed for the purpose.

1967 Brit. Mus. Rep. Trustees 1966 ii. 53 Further outhousing on a large scale will be necessary before the proposed new library building is completed.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 920/3 Out-housing is an established practice in university libraries, where it is not impossible to distinguish certain categories of books which will receive considerably less use than others.

1988 Daily Tel. 7 June 18/3 The pressure for new homes comes from the out-housing of long-lived pensioners, fissiparous marriages and youngsters leaping prematurely from the parental nest.

1991 Independent (Nexis) 6 Sept. 18 We have always recognised that we shall have to resort to outhousing.