Agricultural Buildings - Types

Types

• Stable
• Bank barn
• Pennsylvania barn (Standard and Sweitzer types, also known as forebay or porch barns)
• Carriage house/Cart Shed
• Combination barn — found throughout England, especially in areas of pastoral farming
• Dutch barn
• English barn
• Granary — to store grain
• Housebarn
• Linhay — to store hay on the first floor with either cattle on the ground floor (cattle linhay), or farm machinery (cart linhay). Characterised by an open front with regularly spaced posts or pillars.
• Longhouse — an ancient form of cattle building, with the same entrance for people as well
• Oast houses — used for drying hops as part of the brewing process.
• Pole barn — a simple structure that consists of poles embedded in the ground to support a roof, with or without walls. The pole barn lacks a conventional foundation, thus greatly reducing construction costs. Traditionally used to house livestock, hay or equipment.
• Round barn
• Shelter sheds — open-fronted structures for stock
• Shippon — houses oxen and cattle. Has fodder storage above, regularly spaced doors on the yard side, a pitching door or window on the first floor.
• Stable — the historical building had a hayloft on the first floor and a pitching door at the front. After the barn, this is typically historically the second oldest building on the farm.
• Tobacco barn
• Tithe barn — a type of barn used in much of northern Europe in the Middle Ages for storing the tithes — a tenth of the farm's produce which had to be given to the church
• Threshing barn — for the processing and storage of cereals, to keep them in dry conditions. Characterised by large double doors in the centre of one side, a smaller one on the other, and storage for cereal harvest or unprocessed on either side. In England the grain was beaten from the crop by flails and then separated from the husks by winnowing between these doors. The design of these typically remained unchanged between the 12th and 19th centuries. The large doors allow for a horse wagon to be driven through; the smaller ones allow for the sorting of sheep and other stock in the spring and summer.