Barnyard Waymarkers are pleased to announce the latest Featured
Barn:
Mount Clifton Farm, Clifton,
Cumbria, UK by Martlakes
"Usually stone built,
British bank barns are rectangular buildings. They usually have a central
threshing area with hay or corn (cereal) storage bays on either side on the
upper floor; and byres, stables, cartshed or other rooms below. The threshing
barn on the upper floor was entered by double doors in the long wall approached
from a raised bank: these banks could be artificially created. Opposite the main
doors was a small winnowing door which opened high above the farmyard level. A
common arrangement had an open-fronted single bay cartshed below the threshing
floor, with stables on one side and a cow-house on the other. The entrances to
these lower floor rooms were protected from above in many cases by a continuous
canopy or pentise carried on timber or stone beams which are cantilevered from
the main wall." from Wikipedia
This classic bank barn serves as a traditional 'housebarn' where
animals and people share living quarters under one roof.
You can see this -
as well as any previously 'featured' barns - here