CARRIAGE HOUSE

A carriage house (also known as a coach house or a cart shed) is an outbuilding near a bigger house that was originally constructed to house the coachman or caretaker on the top level and was originally built to store horse-drawn vehicles. Small second homes or garage apartments, tiny houses, guest houses, detached garages, home offices, studio spaces, or in-law suites are all common applications for these structures in society today... A tiny outbuilding constructed and built in the manner of original carriage homes is also referred to as a "carriage house." The phrases "carriage house" and "carriage home" are commonly interchanged, however the latter is a marketing term for tiny single-family residences built on small lots with shared walls, comparable to a townhouse or condo... The history of the carriage house is intertwined with the emergence of the horse-drawn carriage in the United Kingdom. For upper-class and rich households in the 1700s, possessing a horse-drawn carriage was..