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The Flemish barn group is a historic, aisled, group of barn types in a small region in the Netherlands including the west of the province of North Brabant, part of Zeeland, and on the islands of South Holland.[1]. Flemish barns are believed to have developed in the 17th century.
Defining features are:
- Flemish barns are aisled barns, the barn doors are on the end giving access to the aisles rather than to the bays. They are often three aisles (driebeukige) wide.
- The drive floor (langsdeel) is in a side aisle, though some large Flemish barns have an fourth aisle with stalls outside the drive floor called in Dutch a middenlangsdeeltype.[2]
- The framing is of a type called a "roof beam bent" (dekbalkgebint) where the tie beam lands on top of the posts forming this particular type of bent (U.S.) or cross-frame (U.K.).
The Flemish barn may just be used for crop storage, crops and animals, or a housebarn and likely developed from the longhouse. The walls of the barn are often tarred black wood but they can also be made from brick. The roof is usually covered with thatch.
In contrast, the Zeeland barn group has the barn doors on the sidewalls making the access to the barn in the direction of the bays.
Gallery
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A farmhouse with Flemish barn in South Holland. Image: Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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Framing of a Flemish barn. Ulvenhout. Image: Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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The tie beam on top of the post is a defining feature of the Flemish barn group. Image: Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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The drive aisle is on the side, hay is piled on the floor. Note the lack of tie beams to the sidewall. Teteringen, North Brabant. Image: Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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Flemish barn from 1938 in Blaaksedijk, South Holland.
See also
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edit- ^ S.J. Fockema Andreae, R.C. Hekker en E.H. ter Kuile. Duizend jaar bouwen in Nederland (2 delen). Allert de Lange, Amsterdam 1957-1958. 309. http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/fock001duiz01_01/fock001duiz01_01_0049.php accessed 3/1/2013
- ^ "Farmhouses in IJsselmonde" http://www.eilandijsselmonde.mmmmx.net/article/1177/boerderijen-op-ijsselmonde/
External links
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Category:Timber framed buildings
Category:Barns
Category:House types