Cox District Road Livestock Barn

This wonderful gem of a barn was built on the corner of Cox District Road and West Woodstock Road on an expanding farm on the banks of the Ottauqueechee River. It is a medium sized structure based loosely on the three bay threshing barn, but designed with maximum hay storage in mind. Thus a full loft was constructed with a tall knee wall upstairs to create a large storage space. In order to restrain the outward force of snow load on the roof, a rare dovetailed tie beam was installed eave to eave in the center of the structure. Hay was loaded in through a hay door high in the gable, and dropped down a trap door to feed the animals that lived beneath. A wagon door provided access into the central bay, and animals were kept on the wings. As technology and farm practice shifted, one bay of the barn was converted into a milk cooling room for the large farm. When farming ceased in 1979, a chimney and woodstove were added and the barn became an antique store under the stewardship of the Nichols family. It has been a landmark structure along the well traveled Route-4 corridor. 

 

Details:

• 680 square feet of footprint with great potential for a partial or full loft

• Hand hewn softwood beams

• Half round pine rafters

• Beautiful five sided ridge beam with wind braces

• Three beams that measure 30 feet in length

• High knee wall provides room for a spacious loft or hay storage 

• We will provide the restored frame, erected on your foundation, with the original roof boards installed

 

Possibilities:

This barn would make a wonderful livestock barn or studio space. It would also make an amazing cabin or small home. We imagine a partial loft as a bedroom or library, with some of the space left open from the floor to the ridge beam.