coach house

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

Also called carriage house.

Origin of coach house

First recorded in 1670–80

And I asked him, your excellence, how it happened that travellers were sleeping in a coach-house instead of in a chamber.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 |Various
Frederick went out through another lobby, and found himself at the lower end of the courtyard near the coach-house.

Sentimental Education Vol 1 |Gustave Flaubert
But he thought a visit to the coach-house of more immediate importance.

813 |Maurice Leblanc
One of these is the azaguan, which constitutes the main entrance to the house; the other leads to the cochera or coach-house.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 |Various

One day he descended into the courtyard and covered the coach-house, stable, and party-wall with his artistic efforts.

Fromentin |Georges Beaume

coach house

a building in which a coach is kept

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