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barn

Agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace, may contain a livestock housing section

Also known as barnhouse

Instance of: type of farmhouse
Subclass of: agricultural structure
, outbuilding
, shed

Overview

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A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain. As a result, the term barn is often qualified e.g. tobacco barn, dairy barn, cow house, sheep barn, potato barn. In the British Isles and in Europe, the term barn is restricted mainly to storage structures for unthreshed cereals and fodder, the terms byre, shippon or shippen being applied to cow shelters, whereas horses are kept in buildings known as stables. In mainland Europe, however, barns were often part of integrated structures known as byre-dwellings. In addition, barns may be used for equipment storage, as a covered workplace, and for activities such as threshing.

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OpenStreetMap tag: building=barn
Has use: storage contains: hay
Different from: Klub Stodoła

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42 identifiers linking barn across the web's reference databases

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