Editing Barn (section)

{{Short description|Agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace}}
{{About|the building|other uses|Barn (disambiguation)|and|Barns (surname)|and|Barnes (disambiguation)}}
{{Redirect|Farm building|farm living quarters|farmhouse}}
{{redirect|Byre|the Spanish YouTuber|Byre (YouTuber)}}
[[Image:Zalmon Read Barn back view.jpg|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.]]
[[Image:TTCdairybarn.jpg|thumb|The [[Texas Technological College Dairy Barn]] in [[Lubbock, Texas]], U.S., was used as a teaching facility until 1967.]]
[[File:Лебедев Гумно 1894.jpg|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.<ref>Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009. Threshold.</ref> Painting from 1894 by [[Klavdy Lebedev]] titled the floor or the threshing floor (Гумно).]]
[[File:GrangeBarn-interior.jpg|thumb|[[Grange Barn, Coggeshall|Grange Barn]], [[Coggeshall]], England, originally part of the Cistercian monastery of Coggeshall. Dendrochronologically dated from 1237 to 1269, it was restored in the 1980s by the Coggeshall Grange Barn Trust, Braintree District Council and Essex County Council.]]
[[File:Barn Barberêche Mar 2011.jpg|thumb|A bridge barn in Switzerland. The bridge (rather than a ramp) in this case also shelters animals.]]
[[File:Starke Round Barn.jpg|thumb|[[Starke Round Barn]] in Red Cloud, Nebraska, the largest freestanding barn in the country.]]

A '''barn''' is an agricultural building usually  on [[farm]]s and used for various purposes. In [[North America]], a barn refers to structures that house [[livestock]], including [[cattle]] and [[horse]]s, as well as equipment and [[fodder]], and often grain.<ref name =Noble>Allen G. Noble, ''Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions'' (New York: Tauris, 2007), 30.</ref> 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]], the term barn is restricted mainly to storage structures for [[wikt:unthreshed|unthreshed]] cereals and [[fodder]], the terms '''byre''' or '''shippon''' being applied to [[cow]] shelters, whereas horses are kept in buildings known as [[stables]].<ref name=Noble/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/byre |title=Byre &#124; Define Byre at Dictionary.com |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=2012-12-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102204240/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/byre |archive-date=2012-11-02 }}</ref> In mainland Europe, however, barns were often part of integrated structures known as [[byre-dwelling]]s (or [[housebarn]]s in US literature). In addition, barns may be used for equipment storage, as a covered workplace, and for activities such as [[threshing]].