Werewolf is a contraction of the Anglo-Saxon word 'were'--which means man--and wolf; 'werewolf, man wolf.
Source: I watched Prisoner of Azkaban last night.
Warehouse, on the other hand, is literally a “house of wares”.
The apparent scale is terrible because of the boxes and roll up door, but there is a human sized door and stairwell on the right for a warehouse that would make it far larger than the house.
Werewolves turns from human to werewolf when there's a full moon.
The house turned into a warehouse.
Apparently the house turns to a warehouse in a full moon. Took me forever to figure out because I kept trying to figure out how it relates to Loss.