Definition of "houseroom"

‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

[…] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room.

1685, John Dunton, An Hue and Cry after Conscience‎, London, page 56

[…] she has more old figures than is worth house room.

1786, Frederick Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, p. 38

And, Mr. Farfrae, as you provide so much, and houseroom, and all that, I’ll do my part in the drinkables, and see to the rum and schiedam—maybe a dozen jars will be sufficient?

1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in The Mayor of Casterbridge‎