English barn

[3] 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 a basement 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.

[4] 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.

A common door arrangement of the three-bay barn, but with a shed-roof addition to the right side.
A romantic view of the threshing floor . Doors on both side-walls was common but not universal. The swinging doors are typical but here they are a rare type called haar hung (they are suspended from one of the door stiles).