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What is a Barn?
Barns around the world
Architecture should produce true realizations of solidified desires. — Salvador Dalí.
A barn is a building separate from the main house, traditionally used for storing farm animals, equipment, or grain.
A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes.
The barn is usually a large building for the storage of farm products or feed and usually for the housing of farm animals or farm equipment.
In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain.
In the British Isles, the term barn is restricted mainly to storage structures for unthreshed cereals and fodder.
Half-timbered barn with brick infill. Uetersen, Germany.
This barn’s proportions resemble a Low German house.
