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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of coach house

First recorded in 1670–80


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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

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

Builder Neil Keveren invites me for tea in the lounge of his pretty 19th Century coach house.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2015

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

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