OUTHOUSE

Any house necessary for the purposes of life, in which the owner does not make his constant or principal residence, is an outhouse. State v. O’Brien, ‘2 Root “(Conn.) 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 barn, a dairy, a toolhouse, and the like.