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A mews is a row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above them, built behind large city houses before motor vehicles replaced horses in the early twentieth century. Mews are usually located in desirable residential areas, having been built to cater for the horses, coachmen and stable-servants of prosperous residents.
Historically in North America, "livery stable" had a somewhat different meaning: a stable where horses, teams and wagons were for hire, but also where privately owned horses could be boarded for a short time. Because of the temporary boarding aspect, livery stables were often attached to a hotel or boarding house.
A “Luxury Equestrian Estate” could be yours for $1.79 million.. Located near Carolina Forest, the 3,400-square-foot house has a horse stable in the backyard that is connected to a 1.25 acre ...
Linked house: side-by-side attached houses that appear detached above-ground but are attached at the foundation below-ground; Linked semi-detached: side-by-side attached houses with garages in between them, sharing basement and garage walls; Mews property: an urban stable-block that has often been converted into residential properties.
Stables can be maintained privately for an owner's own horses or operated as a public business where a fee is charged for keeping other people's horses. In some places, stables are run as riding schools, where horses are kept for the purpose of providing lessons for people learning to ride or even as a livery stable (US) or hireling yard (UK ...
A housebarn (also house-barn or house barn) is a building that is a combination of a house and a barn under the same roof. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most types of housebarn also have room for livestock quarters. If the living quarters are only combined with a byre, whereas the cereals are stored outside the main building, the house is called a byre-dwelling .
A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. [1] Carriage houses were often two stories, with related staff quarters above.
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