Barn Style
An early barn with a roof having two planes that slope in opposite directions
What is a Gable roof barn?
Wood panels often used to line walls. Derives from a German word for wall-board.
What is Wainscoting?
These doors were split with an upper and lower door for light, ventilation and to keep in animals.
What is a Dutch Door"
A window that is pushed out from the wall.
What is a Bay Window?
Iron Oxide in paint.
What is red barn paint?
What is a round barn?
wooden boards with rabbeted edges (grooves) that overlap to create a tight, waterproof seal
What is Shiplap?
These doors took the place of large hinged doors. They eliminated opening a wide door and letting in a rush of cold air. The idea for these doors came from rail cars.
What are sliding doors?
A space for dropping down hay from the mow.
What is a Hay Bay?
A decorative dome-like structure, on top of a building used to provide ventilation or to admit extra light
What is a Copula?
A building built into the side of a hill, accessible on two different levels.
What is a Bank Barn?
Wide boards placed vertically on a building's exterior, with narrower strips covering the seams between them, creating a distinctive vertical pattern
What is Board and Batten?
This design across barn doors made the barn doors stonger.
What is the "X" design on the doors?
An Add-On or Lean-To on a building.
What is an Extended Bay?
A structural element built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window.
What is a Dormer?
Barn sometimes called a hip barn to create more useable room over a given floor area. The roof has two pitches on each side of roof.
What is a Gambrel Barn?
A type of wood paneling with a tongue-and-groove design featuring a deep V-shaped groove between the boards
What is Car siding?
A simple two part design using a stout pin fitted inot the jamb and a metal strap on the door with a hole on the end that dropped over the pin.
What is a pintle or pintail hinge?
The distance between posts or pillars the length of the barn
What is a Bay?
When dails are pounded over - nail is said to be dead, or "dead as a door nail".
What is Clenching?
A farm building with a peaked roof that sweeps low to the ground. Good design to reduce the impact of wind.
What is a Prairie Style Barn?
Barn wood that has been salvaged for reuse.
What is reclaimed wood?
A small roof above a door.
What is a Pentice or pent roof?
A second story wood floor supported by beams and joists
What is a Loft?
A strong joining technique method where the projecting of one piece fits into the opening of the other piece which are then held together in place by wooden pegs, glue, bolts or screws.
What is Mortise and Tenon?