Editing Barn (section)

==History==
The modern barn largely developed from the three [[aisle]]d medieval barn, commonly known as [[tithe barn]] or monastic barn. This, in turn, originated in a 12th-century building tradition, also applied in [[hall]]s and ecclesiastical buildings. In the 15th century several thousands of these huge barns were to be found in Western Europe. In the course of time, its construction method was adopted by normal farms and it gradually spread to simpler buildings and other rural areas. As a rule, the aisled barn had large entrance doors and a passage corridor for loaded wagons. The storage floors between the central posts or in the aisles were known as [[bay (architecture)|bays]] or mows (from Middle French ''moye'').<ref>Malcolm Kirk, ''The Barn. Silent Spaces'', London 1994; Graham Hughes, ''Barns of Rural Britain'', London 1985; Walter Horn, 'On the Origins of the Medieval Bay System', in: ''Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'' 17 (1958), nr. 2, p. 2-23.</ref>

The main types were large barns with sideway passages, compact barns with a central entrance and smaller barns with a transverse passage. The latter also spread to Eastern Europe. Whenever stone walls were applied, the aisled [[bent (structural)|timber frame]] often gave way to single-naved buildings. A special type were [[byre-dwelling]]s, which included living quarters, byres and stables, such as the [[Frisian farmhouse]] or [[Gulf house]] and the [[Black Forest house]]. Not all, however, evolved from the medieval barn. Other types descended from the prehistoric [[longhouse]] or other building traditions. One of the latter was the [[Low German house|Low German (hall) house]], in which the harvest was stored in the attic.<ref>Jeremy Lake, ''Historic Farm Buildings. An Introduction and Guide'', London 1989; Eric Sloane, ''An Age of Barns. An Illustrated Review of Classic Barn Styles and Construction'', New York 1967, 4th ed. 2005; Jean-René Trochet, ''Maisons paysannes en France et leur environnement, XVe-XXe siècles'', Paris 2007.</ref> In many cases, the New World colonial barn evolved from the Low German house, which was transformed to a real barn by first generation colonists from the Netherlands and Germany.<ref>John Fitchen, ''The New World Dutch Barn. A Study of its Characteristics, its Structural System, and its Probable Erectional Procedures'', Syracuse N.Y. 1968.</ref>