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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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 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 .
A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.
Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.
Whether constructed with a metal frame or a traditional post-frame, they are commonly labeled as barndominiums, emphasizing the style and feel over construction method. [9] Much like colonial , modern , or craftsman style homes, barndominium seems to have earned its place as another distinct category among architectural styles .
A housebarn is a combined house and barn. Barndominium: a type of house that includes living space attached to either a workshop or a barn, typically for horses, or a large vehicle such as a recreational vehicle or a large recreational boat; Byre-dwelling: farmhouse with people and livestock under one roof
A Pennsylvania barn is a type of bank barn built in the United States from about 1790 to 1900. The style's most distinguishing feature is an overshoot or forebay, an area where one or more walls overshoot its foundation. These barns were banked and set into a hillside to ensure easy access to the basement and the level above.
A low and wide dormer with a curved roof and no sides. Instead, the roof covering is gradually curved up and over the dormer in a flattened bell curve. [8] Link dormer This can be a dormer that houses a chimney or a dormer that joins one part of a roof to another. [9] Bonneted dormer An arched roof dormer, rounded in shape when viewed from front.
Next to it is the "back house", which was traditionally a carriage or wagon house. Connected to the back house is a standard livestock barn. This style was banned in many areas due to fire concerns, but the bans were lifted in the 18th century. [1] Originally, all four buildings would have parallel roof lines.