Usually means: Large residence with extensive property.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word big house:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. big house, the big house: Merriam-Webster
  2. big house: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. big house: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. big house: Wiktionary
  5. big house: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. big house, the big house: Dictionary.com
  7. Big House (Canadian band), Big House (album), Big House (band), Big House (song), The Big House (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), The Big House (tournament), The Big House: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. big house: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. big house: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Big House, big house: Urban Dictionary
  3. Big house: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (big house)

noun:  (slang) Prison, jail.
noun:  (slang, obsolete) The workhouse.
noun:  A religious building of the Delaware Indians, representing the cosmos.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, house.

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