The Victorian Barntraditions and forms

Miles Lewis

The Victorian Barnsources & prototypes

Miles Lewis

Sarcophagus carved from a single block of red sandstone, excavated from a cave tomb at Lushan, Sichuan province.

Height 580 mm. Wenwu, 1987, 10.

Excavated at Xiangguo-siTemple, Chongqing, Sichuan. Wenwu

Cankao Ziliao (1955), 3, p 40.

Chinese tomb models showing steddles, Eastern Han, AD 25-220.

Courtesy Prof Qinghua Guo

The steddle, or jelepreng in IndonesiaImages from Davison & Waterson, in G Tjahjono, Indonesian

Heritage: Architecture (Singapore 1998, pp 10, 40

Above: Borobudur, 9th century. Below:detail of a Badui house in west Java

Sasak rice barn,or lombok.

The steddle in West TimorImages from Fox, in G Tjahjono, Indonesian Heritage:

Architrecture (Singapore 1998, pp 44-45

Left: Dagada house.Right:

Dagada granary.

Below right: Atoni lopo,

or communalMeeting house,with granary loft.

Corn steddle at Paterson, New South Walesphotos, Miles Lewis 1990

‘Dutch barn’, from Thomas Lightoler, Gentleman and Farmer's Architect, 1762

cast iron stand for stacks, and modular rick stand by Cottam & Hallen, London:

both from J C Loudon, An Encyclopædia of Cottage,

Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture (London 1846 [1833]), pp 405-6.

A mouseproof store on Springall’s system,‘Mount Hesse’, Victoria

right top: a Springall steddle, ‘Mount Hesse’

Right bottom: the Springall substructure of amouseproof store at ‘Ripple Vale’

reconstruction plan and interior of building B,Ezinge, Netherlands, 3rd – 4th century BC.

Lorna Price, The Plan of St Gall in Brief (Berkeley [California] 1982), pp 80, 82.

reconstruction of catle barn,Ezinge, Netherlands, 2nd century BC.

Lorna Price, The Plan of St Gall in Brief(Berkeley [California] 1982), p 81.

reconstructed Bronze age house,Hjerl Hede, Denmark:Gorm Benzon, Gammelt Danske

Bindingsværk(Copenhagen 1984), p 145.

'winter walls' of sod, used inDenmark into the nineteenth century:

Gorm Benzon, Bindingsværk i Mellemjylland(no place [?Copenhagen] 1985), p 9.

Some Netherlands barn types c 1550-1700

R C Hekker, Historische Boerderijtypen /Historical Types of Barns (Arnhem 1991), no page

distribution of building types c 1550the threshing nave type

versus the compartmented house type (hatched)

R C Hekker, Historische Boerderijtypen /

Historical Types of Barns (Arnhem 1991), no page

Mooney’s barn,Hahndorf, South AustraliaGordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II, p 193

Paech family’s barn at Paechtown, South AustraliaGordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II, p 200

Friederichstadt barn, South AustraliaGordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II, p 247

corner post beam and strutting details, Friederichstadt barnGordon Young et al, Hahndorf (2 vols, Adelaide 1981), II,p 211

the thatched shed

the Wallace Osadchuk cattle barn, USAChristopher Martin, 'Skeleton of Settlement',

in Thomas Carter & B L Herman, Perspectivesin Vernacular Architecture, III (Columbia [Missouri] 1989), p 95.

shed on the Terry Price propertyPolkemmet Road, Quantong North, Victoria

exterior & interiorphotos, Miles Lewis 1985.

below right: detail of ridge bearingfrom a Hungarian-type shed

at Hambuliakavo, South SlovakiaVaclac Mencl, Lidova Architektura

v Ceskoslovensku (Prague 1980), p 124.

the first pattern book barn design, 1781William Pain, The Carpenter's Pocket Directory;

containing the Best Methods of Framing Timber Buildings... with the Plan and Sections of a Barn (London 1781),

plates i & ii.

'Small English Barn‘ 1797from Robert Beatson, 'On Farm Buildings in General',

in Board of Agriculture [London], Communications

(London 1804 [1797]), pl v

Leumeah Barn, Campbellfield NSW

Illegally stolen from Gary Vines’s paper

'Barn at Lord Muncaster's in Cumberland‘ 'Design for a Barn & Small Thrashing Mill' from Beatson, 'On Farm Buildings in General', pls viii, ix.

timber barn, 1807Robert Lugar, The Country Gentleman's Architect (London 1807), plate 20

enclosed and partly enclosed farmyards in Australia

The walled farmyard at 'Old Wesleydale', Chudleigh,Tasmania, with the barn at the centre, 1830s.Left, the approach; right, the wall from inside.

Photos, Miles Lewis 1973

'Chatsworth', Victoria, men's quarters (left)and stables &c (right)

forming two sides of a potential giant courtyard,1850s onwards. Photos, Miles Lewis 1990

Design for a Farm-Steading No 1.John Starforth, The Architecture of the Farm

(Edinburgh 1853), plates xlv, xlvii.

Barn from the Miller Manufacturing Co., USAMiller's "Ready-Built" Buildings (Saint Louis [Missouri] 1918), pp 65-9

‘Ventilated Granary(top left)

and various corn cribs

Jonathan Periam [adapted by R W E McIvor],The Pictorial Home and Farm Manual

(Sydney 1885), pp 423-5

Single and double corn cribs by the Miller company,and the Miller erection system.

Miller's "Ready-Built" Buildings (Saint Louis [Missouri] 1918), pp 78, 79, 80.

The Herbert homestead,Yarra Glen [demolished],

house, and outbuildingsof indeterminate use:

general view and detail of slab wall. Photos Miles Lewis 1979

Frederick Harrison’sideal farmstead

Building & Engineering Journal,3 August 1889, np.

.

G A Dean’s farmstead forthe Prince Consort at'Home Park', Windsor

G A Dean, Selected Designs for Country

Residences (London 1867 pl 21.

The large hay barn, 'Tocal', NSW,by Edmund Blacket c 1850:

view and detail of knee brace.Photos, Miles Lewis 1990.

'The Mains', Upper Murray,farm buildings of the late 1850s,

with a detail of the eavesjoist construction inthe barn on the left.

photos, Miles Lewis l985.

general framing for a heavy barnW A Radford, Framing: a Practical Manual (Chicago 1909), p 240

plank-frame construction & wind-bracing for plank-frame constructionW A Radford, Framing: a Practical Manual (Chicago 1909), pp 254-5

Bark roofing and sod roofing‘Stapelgrove’, Flynn, Gippsland, 1770s; Thomas’s farm, Campbell’s Forest

Photos Miles Lewis & Gary Gilmour

Iron barn at Hastings, Victoria,recycled from Kirk's Bazaar

in Bourke Street.Photos, Miles Lewis

Francis Morton's 'Patent Iron Thatch substitute for hay and corn ricks'.J L Steinhardt [ed], The Illustrated Guide to the Manufacturers,

Engineers, and Merchants of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (London 1869), p 145.

The Victorian Barntraditions and forms

Miles Lewis