The Collaborative International Dictionary
carriage house \carriage house\ n. a small building usually near a large residence or part of an estate, used for keeping coaches, carriages, or other vehicles; -- also called coach house. It is now (1998) obsolescent and its function has been taken over by the garage, which is usually attached to a residence or main building. Carriage houses are still found on older estates, though not usually used for their original purpose.
Wiktionary
n. A building in which a horse and carriage is stored, separate from the house.
WordNet
n. a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles [syn: coach house]
Wikipedia
A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack.
In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open fronted, single story buildings, with the roof supported by regularly spaced pillars. They often face away from the farmyard and may be found close to the stables and roadways, giving direct access to the fields.
Usage examples of "carriage house".
Then she guided him with a soft nudge and whispered words of encouragement, bending low as they clopped through the carriage house door.
I made a last round of the back door, the yard, and the carriage house, sneaking myself a smoke as I made sure everything was locked down tight.
The traveling carriage with its ducal crests emblazoned on both doors stood outside the carriage house looking as clean and shining as the day it had been purchased.
Judith had been kept constantly busy during the morning, running errands to and from the kitchens and various other rooms and to the stables and carriage house as Aunt Effingham tried to ensure that she had not forgotten a single detail of the preparations for the arrival of the houseguests.
He went out into the garden and was taking the path toward the carriage house when he saw Forster by the surrey, bent over one of the ruined wheels.
He drove Pansy around to the stablesridiculous thing, room for twenty horses and five or six carriages in the carriage housedriving her into the cobblestone courtyard in the center of the carriage house to unharness her, getting her to back up into the gig's bay so he wouldn't have to push it into shelter by hand.
He drove Pansy around to the stablesridiculous thing, room for twenty horses and five or six carriages in the carriage house driving her into the cobblestone courtyard in the center of the carriage house to unharness her, getting her to back up into the gig's bay so he wouldn't have to push it into shelter by hand.