The term "messuage" was what I was attempting to recall, when property was conveyed, in legal documents, such as in a Will, as the nearby outbuilings were held, for renting out to families, on the main land holding, around about 1350.
While in the British Dialect, the older term used in the spoken word, may have been "cote", as the prefix & "age" as the suffix, ( such as with; parsonage, or peerage) & goes back in time, possibly to Old English, about 1050...eventually becoming what is commonly known, as a cottage, in our modern language, in use & understanding of the term.
Or, possibly coincidently derived from cotagium, due to the typical practice of writing in Latin, for those fortunate enough, to become educated, that long ago.
