limehouse

What it means

1. An oast house that uses a limekiln.

   In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.

   1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii

In a sentence

In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.

1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii

Where it comes from

From lime + house.