Barns

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|upright=1.35|Farmyard in Nottinghamshire thumb|A romantic painting titled Farmyard in Winter by George Henry Durrie, 1858, U.S.A.

type of timber-framed farmhouse found in Northern Germany and the Netherlands, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof

barn used for paying and storing tithe (tax)

farm

building in Celbridge, Ireland

entrance to barns for owls

farmhouse type in Germany from the Middle Ages

communal activity of rural life

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.