A building or covered-in place for storage of coal.
Bishop Bonner used the one belonging to his palace as a place of confinement during the Marian persecution (1553–58); whence many contemporary and historical allusions.
1555. Philpot, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., III. App. xlix. 159. Synce I came to the bishops coalhowse, I have been six tymes in examination.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1875/1. Then was she caried into the Colehouse, and searched for Bookes.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Job iii. 18. Martyrs, kept fast shut up in Lollards Tower, in the Bishop of Londons cole-house.
1732–8. Neal, Hist. Purit. (1822), I. 93. Bonner … ordered him first into the stocks in his coal-house and from thence to Smithfield.
1881. Chicago Times, 16 April. The company is constructing a depot building, coal houses, and tanks at Leaf River.
