Barn

A barn

A barn is a agricultural building used usually on farms and for various purposes. Most barns are used for storage The word barn comes from the Old English word, bere, for barley which means grain, and aern, for a storage place. A barn could contain a stable, for housing horses or similar animals. Most barns with a stable in them, could also be called a stable barn. In most places around the world, barns are normally painted red with white trims.

Barn Media

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  The Texas Technological College Dairy Barn in Lubbock, Texas, U.S., was used as a teaching facility until 1967.

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  Russian women using a hand powered winnowing machine in a threshing barn. Note the board across the doorway to prevent grain from spilling out of the barn, this is the origin of the term threshold. Painting from 1894 by Klavdy Lebedev titled the floor or the threshing floor (Гумно).

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  Grange Barn, Coggeshall, England, originally part of the Cistercian monastery of Coggeshall. Dendrochronologically dated from 1237 to 1269, it was restored in the 1980s by the Coggeshall Grange Barn Trust, Braintree District Council and Essex County Council.

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  A bridge barn in Switzerland. The bridge (rather than a ramp) in this case also shelters animals.

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  Starke Round Barn in Red Cloud, Nebraska, the largest freestanding barn in the United States.

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  The skeleton of a post and beam horse barn just after raising

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  Thomas Ranck Round Barn in Fayette County, Indiana, U.S.

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  The hay track developed in the early 19th century, here showing how the hay hood (roof extension) covers the track. The gable wall of this barn is missing.

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  A barn in southern Ontario, Canada