Characteristics

• early housebarns are small, of rough log Construction, and are covered with a thatched roof
• later examples more closely follow tradition; these feature large timber-framed barns and Commodious houses attached in a long linear unit
• the house portion usually has a steeply-pitched roof, broad rectangular plan, shuttered windows and Dutch doors (a divided door in which the upper and lower halves move independently of each other)
• the barn portion is usually slightly wider and higher than houses; it often has shed-roofed sections on one or both sides
• barns feature either a row of small square Windows or ribbon windows
• main barn doors are often distinguished by geometric designs created by the door construction
• examples from the early 1900s often have T-shaped plans; North American influences, like light wood frame construction and roof dormers, became more common