English barn

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A common door arrangement of the three-bay barn, but with a shed-roof addition to the right side.
A romantic view of the threshing floor. Doors on both side-walls was common but not universal. The swinging doors are typical but here they are a rare type called haar hung (they are suspended from the one of the door style).

The English barn, or three-bay barn, is a

New World Dutch barn, the oldest type and has been called the "...grandfather of the American barn."[2] New barns in this style were constructed for over a century, from the 1770s through the 1900s.[3]

Design

The early pioneers brought with them a barn design inherited from the first colonists. An average English barn measured thirty feet by forty feet and had a large double wagon door on its lateral side and unpainted vertical boards covering the walls. English barns were normally without a basement and stood on level ground. The interior of the barns were characterized by a center driveway which acted as a threshing floor, similar to the breezeway of a crib barn.[4] The double doors generally opened onto the center drive which divided the building into two separate areas, one for hay and grain storage and the other for livestock.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Auer, Michael J. The Preservation of Historic Barns, Preservation Briefs, National Park Service, first published October 1989. Retrieved 7 February 2007.
  2. ISBN 0980129206
  3. ^ a b Historic Barn Types, Taking Care of Your Old Barn, University of Vermont, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 7 February 2007.
  4. ISBN 0395573726

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