Wiktionary
dwellinghouse
n. (context legal English) A house intended as a residential building (and not, for example, as a place of business).
Usage examples of "dwellinghouse".
Sometimes I lifted my gaze to some huge old dwellinghouse on which the shutters had not been closed and in which amphibious men and women floated slowly to and fro in the rich liquid that after nightfall rose incessantly from the wells of the lamps to fill the rooms to the very brink of the outer walls of stone and glass, the movement of their bodies sending through it long unctuous golden ripples.