coach house

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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of coach house¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

It is described by the estate agent as a historic rectory and coach house in several acres of semi-moated gardens.

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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.

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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.

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The Victorian dovecote in the eaves of the coach house may even remain home to the family of jackdaws now living there.

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It also asks for a new electrical supply cabinet, new doors on the coach house and blacksmith's shop, a new roof for the dairy and work to the staircase.

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