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

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

The neglected coach house that she turns into an art studio is the only comfort she takes in “the Lodge,” the rural Victorian villa that gives her the willies, but that Tom insisted they buy.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2020

Ten years ago, after a divorce, he bought the coach house in Harmondsworth village for just under £200,000.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2015

I don't think either of his parents have jobs, but they are so disgustingly rich that Tiny Cooper doesn't even live in the mansion; he lives in the mansion's coach house, all by himself.

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