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The English barn, or three-bay barn, is a
The Preservation of Historic Barns
Preservation Briefs, National Park Service, first published October 1989. Retrieved 7 February 2007. but are the most widespread barn type in America. This barn type is, with the
Taking Care of Your Old Barn, University of Vermont, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 7 February 2007.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission site with information and a floor plan drawing
Barns in the United States
The English barn, or three-bay barn, is a barn
A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain.Alle ...
style that was most popular in the northeast region of the US,Auer, Michael JThe Preservation of Historic Barns
Preservation Briefs, National Park Service, first published October 1989. Retrieved 7 February 2007. but are the most widespread barn type in America. This barn type is, with the
New World Dutch barn
Dutch barn is the name given to markedly different types of barns in the United States and Canada, and in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Dutch barns (a. k. a. New World Dutch barns) represent the oldest and rarest types of barns. Th ...
, the oldest type and has been called the "...grandfather of the American barn." New barns in this style were constructed for over a century, from the 1770s through the 1900s.Historic Barn TypesTaking Care of Your Old Barn, University of Vermont, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 7 February 2007.
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 abasement
A basement or cellar is one or more Storey, floors of a building that are completely or partly below the storey, ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the Furnace (house heating), furnace, ...
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.Endersby, Elric, and Alexander Greenwood. ''Barn: the art of a working building''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. 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.
See also
* New England barnReferences
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission site with information and a floor plan drawing
Barns in the United States