Ipswich, MA, US / MA
The newly restored barn sits on 7 acres of field and pasture surrounded by 150 acre apple orchard. The barn is typical of early American post and beam construction. Arron Sturgis, president of Maine Preservation studied the barn and wrote “it is clear that you have a very good example of an early 19th century “Yankee Ground Barn”. Your barn is steeped in tradition with early English joinery including flared posts joined in the scribe rule method of timber framing. It hosts hand hewn continuous tie beams, plates and principal rafters. Posts flare to accept the complicated and beautiful joinery created by those first settling in Ipswich.This traditional joinery is strong and beautiful and it is exquisitely coupled with a truly American farm building design that encompasses a gable entry at both ends of the barn. This allows access for wagons of hay to be placed in a large haymow with lower stalls located along its opposite side. The restored barn has over 2400 feet of open living space with 36 ft high ceilings.
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