Symmonds Barns.

Both the Oak Barn and the Beech Barn will be carefully dismantled and shipped to Texas.
They will be offered for sale tagged and blueprinted.
Optionally we can rebuild the barn frames on clients foundations.
The frames can be altered or added to, to suite your requirements.
WeatherBoard also offer expert custom millwork, custom stairs, furniture and design services all with the 'barn home' in mind.

Oak Frame

Total square footage is 2,760.
This barn will convert to give a residence in excess of 4200 sq. ft. allowing for open galleries etc.
Converted to a three story home it would give even more living space.

Oak frame.

The ground floor has extensive cribbing for animal stalls.
The floor in the hay mow is split level creating a central gallery in the ground floor.

Oak frame.

This frame is in superb condition throughout the barn.
Completely square and true as the day it was built, there is no rot or insect damage.

Oak Frame

Detail showing tie beam, post and wall plate.

Oak Frame.

Tie beams and posts in the hay mow.

Symmonds barns - Oak barn

The gambrel roof barn has principal dimensions of
46' x 60'
The frame is traditional post and beam construction. Mortice and tenon joinery fastened with oak pegs. The frame is entirely of rough sawn, white oak.
The average beam size is 10" x 10"

Wagons ho !

These are quite possibly the wagons used to carry the logs used to construct this building.

Beech frame

The frame is built of hand hewn beams cut from beech logs using an axe and an adze. The character reflects many man hours of hard labor. Well built and well maintained over the last 180 years, frames of this caliber are a rare find.

The barn is offered for sale, tagged and blue printed or reconstructed on clients foundations.

Dimensions approx. 40 x 60 and 40 x 48

Both barns being an ample size the older barn is the smaller of the two.

Symmonds Barns

Two Indiana barns, both with superb frames, both in excellent condition.
The barn on the left being the older of the two dates back to around 1830.
It's frame is hand hewn from beech timbers up to 15" square.
The barn on the right dates from around 1900. The frame is of rough sawn white oak.