coach house

American  

noun

1. a small building, usually part of an estate or adjacent to a main house, used for housingcoaches, carriages, and other vehicles.

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coach house British  

noun

1. a building in which a coach is kept

2. Also called: coaching house, coaching inn. history an inn along a coaching route at which horses were changed

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Etymology

Origin of coach house

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

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coach house

In the 1990s, the celebrated English garden designer and writer, Penelope Hobhouse, built a garden at Bettiscombe in the Marshwood Vale on the grounds of a former coach house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

The three-bedroom property, a former coach house, is set in the grounds of a ruined mansion and overlooks an 18th Century country park including 40 acres of woodland.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2023

Beside the main residence, the estate has a detached coach house with a home theater on the first floor and a studio apartment on the second.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022

In 1955, the young family relocated to Surrey and, in 1957, moved their factory to a 1,200-square-foot coach house in rural Kent.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Finally, I turn into the alley and steer around the potholes until we get behind Tiny's coach house.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan