Obs. [HOUSE sb.1 3.] A building for the storage (or manufacture) of wool.

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1295.  Cal. Wills Crt. Husting, Lond., I. (1889), 122. [House called] Wolhous [in] Sporiereslane.

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1340.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 540. Et in planks sarrandis pro le Wollehous de Pytingdon, 6s.

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c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 804/12. Hoc lanifisium, a wulhowse.

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1497.  Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 249. Havyng owte the cordage owte of the Wollehouse.

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1541.  Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc., 1857), I. 81. In ye wullhouse a pyle of wole.

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1646.  Inv., in Milton Papers (Camden), 92. In the wooll-house, hoppes at 2 0 0.

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1783.  Berridge, Wks. (1864), 430. Mr. John Raymond’s great house, with his wool-house … and two thousand pounds worth of wool.

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