Agricultural buildings

thumb|Windmill in Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark. Dutch type, built in 1895.

right|thumb|Victoria amazonica (giant Amazon waterlilies) in a large greenhouse at the [[Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden]] A greenhouse is a structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside. There are different types of greenhouses, but they all have large areas covered with transparent materials that let sunlight pass and block it as heat. The most common materials used in modern greenhouses for walls and roofs are rigid plastic made of polycarbonate, plastic film made of polyethylene, or glass panes. When the inside of a greenhouse is exposed to

thumb|Timber framed with siding of vertical boards was typical in early New England. The traditional color is the result of iron oxide stain applied to protect the wood from UV damage. thumb|The Texas Technological College Dairy Barn in [[Lubbock, Texas, U.S., was used as a teaching facility until 1967.]] thumb|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).]]

thumb|Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) thumb|Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century) A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of many material goods, including flour, lumber, paper, textiles, and many metal products. These watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, and wire drawi

thumb|Small stable for 4 horses thumb|Large stable for dozens of horses

thumb|Grain bins in [[Cashton, Wisconsin]] thumb|Grain elevators are composed of groups of grain silos, such as these at [[Port Giles, South Australia.]] thumb|Silos in Acatlán, Hidalgo|Acatlán, Hidalgo, Mexico

thumb|Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942

outdoors enclosure for holding animals such as livestock or pets

thumb|A cottage on Inch Island, Ireland

thumb|upright=1.1|Allied Mills flour mill on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in [[North West England, 2010]]

__NOTOC__ thumb|Modern livestock trough near Empire Ranch, [[Arizona.]] A manger or trough is a rack for fodder, or a structure or feeder used to hold food for animals. The word comes from the Old French mangier (meaning "to eat"), from Latin mandere (meaning "to chew").

right|thumb|A rural shed right|thumb|Modern secure bike sheds right|thumb|A garden shed with a gambrel roof

right|thumb|Pigsty – Museum of Country Life in Wallonia in :w:Saint-Hubert, Belgium|Saint-Hubert (Belgium) thumb|Pigsty in Vampula, [[Finland]] thumb|Model of toilet with pigsty (see pig toilet), China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25–220 CE

thumb|A farmhouse (at bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland thumb|The Devil's Farmhouse in [[Mellieħa, Malta, built by the Order of St. John with limestone]]

animal husbandry

thumb|right|240px|The hayloft of the village Chereshovitsa, Bulgaria thumb|Desperate Conflict in a Barn, 1853. Haylofts were used to hide escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. A hayloft is a space above a barn, stable or cow-shed, traditionally used for storage of hay or other fodder for the animals below. Haylofts were used mainly before the widespread use of very large hay bales, which allow simpler handling of bulk hay.

open structure with a movable roof for storing loose hay on a farm

right|thumb|250px|Polytunnels on Balhungie Farm, Angus, Scotland|Angus A polytunnel (also known as a polyhouse, hoop greenhouse, or hoophouse, grow tunnel or high tunnel) is a tunnel typically made from steel and covered in polyethylene, usually semi-circular, square or elongated in shape. The interior heats up because incoming solar radiation from the sun warms plants, soil, and other things inside the building faster than heat can escape the structure. Air warmed by the heat from hot interior surfaces is retained in the building by the roof and wall. Temperature, humidity, and ventilation ca

building where cereal grain is converted into malt

thumb|Reitman's Smokehouse, Camp Springs, Kentucky thumb|Meat hanging inside a smokehouse in Switzerland A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. Even when smoke is not used, such a building—typically a subsidiary building—is sometimes referred to as a "smokehouse". When smoke is not used, the term meathouse or meat house is common.

type of mill

structure for feeding animals

cabin where sap collected from sugar maple trees is boiled into maple syrup

headquarters of a forester, administrative building of a forestry company

farm building

one of group of stones used to lift an agricultural storage building above the ground to protect the contents from vermin and damp

circular concrete structure holding liquid manure

type of stable for milk cows

thumb|A typical Montafonerhaus in Gemeinde Gaschurn-Partenen|Gaschurn ([[Vorarlberg)]] The Montafonerhaus (or Montafon house) is a house type in the Montafon valley in Vorarlberg (Austria).

entrance to barns for owls

place where stray livestock were impounded

rabbit burrow

type of shelter

bath designed to immerse livestock in liquid pesticide or other treatment

thumb|A postcard photograph inside a maison landaise thumb|Kliese Housebarn in Emmet, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Built ca. 1850 for Friedrich Kliese, an immigrant from Silesia A housebarn (also house-barn or house barn) is a building that is a combination of a house and a barn under the same roof. Most types of housebarn also have room for livestock quarters. If the living quarters are only combined with a byre, whereas the cereals are stored outside the main building, the house is called a byre-dwelling.

thumb|250px|right|Hekman's boô in Schoonebeek A boô (also spelled boo or boe) is an old Saxon building where a farmer could spend the night with his cattle if he let them graze far outside the village. The buildings, which had separate areas for cattle and farmer to live, were made with cheap materials. Walls were made of straw or braided twigs covered in cow manure or loam; the roofs were also made of straw.

formal style of a farm

thumb|right|300px|Chunche in Boyluq, Turpan thumb|Hanging grapes being dried for raisins inside a Chunche Chunche (, Чунчә; Chinese: 晾房, 阴房) is a Uyghur word that refers to a kind of building used to make raisins in Turpan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The building has a dark interior, and the walls are covered with a large number of holes to allow wind to pass through and assist in the drying process through evaporation. Chunches are usually built in high, windy, areas due to the need for the wind.

building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process

300px|thumb|A girna near the Sopu Tower in the limits of [[Nadur, Gozo]]