The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word COTTAGE
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More clues leading to the result COTTAGE
- Naughty tot kept in pen in small house
- Get coat altered in rural building
- Enclosure outside old abstainer’s rural dwelling
- Old person keeping dry in enclosure, simple accommodation
- Time in bed, a long time, in type of hospital?
- Animal shelter contains device which monitors small dwelling
- Too much crammed into cell in small house
- One could be tied to one sort of cheese
- Prison accommodates 12 – it’s a small building
- Where one could be confined incorporates ostentatious small building
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The straight part
We know that "small dwelling" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case small dwelling = cottage.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COTTAGE mean?
COTTAGE noun- A small house.
- A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
- A public lavatory.
- A meeting place for homosexual men.
- To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
- (of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.