boarding house

noun, an establishment providing meals and lodging for paying guests (COD)

“As soon as a new teacher come to the Island, there’d be a bunch of young lads up every night to — now I won’t say every night but regularly — to their boarding house to try to take out the new teacher.”

“There was a lot of boarding houses in Kingston at that time.”

“Now I don’t know if there’s boarding houses or not.”

“Well my father, for the most part he was across the street in a boarding house.”