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

Rogers said the coach house was occupied by her sailboat’s captain in the summertime.

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