Building a barn and looking for photos of similar ones

[diceuf]

I am getting ready to build my barn in NC and I’m hoping someone has something similar and can send pics. I want:

4 stalls (ideally 12x14)
tack room
feed room (I plan on having external hay storage)
wash rack (can be outside, but covered)

The most important thing is that each stall has an exterior window/door combo. My horses are out most of the time, but I do want the ability to fully close up the barn if necessary, so I’m wondering if center isle is the only way to go?

pros and cons of full concrete vs a concrete isle?

Functional is more important than fancy. Thank you!

[Bluey]

How about this beauty here?

[diceuf]

Wow! That is gorgeous! Too fancy and probably way over budget. Lol.

[Bluey]

It kind of looks made with plain materials, but with a richness in details, that makes it stand out like that.

Just more ideas for your file.

[TwoDreamRides]

I think you could do an enclosed single aisle/shedrow easily. Other people in our area have done a U layout.

fatappy who posts on here has my dream for a single aisle…

[diceuf]

I’ve thought about a shedrow and I would be perfectly fine with that setup assuming I can close it up. Fatappy does have a great setup.

[js]

Do Dutch doors, so you can open the top half. Our barn has 16’ over hang (shed) of each side, makes for a covered paddock on the stall side and on the opposite side covered place for a wash rack and equipment storage. You’ll save by doing 12x12 stalls, really they are big enough unless you have really large horses. Just remember to account for walls and stall dividers, they will eat up about 6"+/- of stall space.

[Badger]

Four stalls, two large run-ins, tack room, feed room, wash rack (you can ignore the apartment part). Dutch doors to outside on all stalls. You can close up three sides completely and the exterior stall doors on the run-in side. Perfect for lots of turnout in the carolinas and the ability to bring them in when needed. Best of both worlds (center aisle and shed row).

http://www.elitebarns.net/photo-gallery/1-5-stall-barns/nggallery/barns-1-5-stalls-with-apartment/three-runs

[diceuf]

Thank you Badger, that is a great layout! I’m going to contact them.

[IPEsq]

I’ve been told that despite the length of the enclosed shed row style with 4 stalls plus tack/feed, that it would be cheaper than doing a center aisle because the width for center aisle will add more to the cost.

[Bluey]

[QUOTE=IPEsq;7953608]
I’ve been told that despite the length of the enclosed shed row style with 4 stalls plus tack/feed, that it would be cheaper than doing a center aisle because the width for center aisle will add more to the cost.[/QUOTE]

I would say, you may consider a shedrow barn with 6 12’ x 12’ spaces with 6’ overhang in front of them similar to a 12’ center aisle 36’ x 36’ structure, also with 6 12’ x 12’ spaces, as far as feet covered by that structure.

We may say, you are folding that shedrow in half and making it one center aisle barn.
That long shedrow is now a square half that length and twice the width and they should be comparable in cost.

So, for practically the same square feet, you have to decide which fits your location, purpose and your preferred look in a barn best.

[netg]

I would keep in mind the lay of your land and possible attached paddocks/pastures.

This is a back door view of my barn (which is intentionally overly open/breezy due to our weather.) https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7183/6887105489_6745ac2dc4_o.jpg

It is a 6 stall, and we have feed in one and tack in another. Originally we just had an extra stall before I bought my youngster, so we only had 3 runs off the stalls, now we have 4. We have also added a track around the outside of the stalls - it’s for us to walk and to keep out animals, but I will probably electrify and use it as a walking track for the horses at some point, too.

We specifically went with the center aisle because we wanted room to have the largest runs possible out the stalls for the higher energy horses. The smaller runs are 24x80 and 36x80 and plenty big for the lower energy horses to get all the running they want in, and the smallest can be made even smaller by connecting its gate to the one from the neighboring large pen to create a 24x12 run in case of any sort of injury rehab.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7557/16265100022_d4148a0521_o.png

Have fun building your barn! I really love my layout, because my mom can take care of the horses, and if they are worked up or if my youngster is there she can’t handle them herself, so it allows her access to all of them easily. Safety for handlers is pretty important to me, too.

[diceuf]

Thank you all for your input. I just moved to NC from FL and this is my first winter here. I’m really torn as to whether I truly need a barn that I can fully close up. My horses will always be out with access to stalls and/or shelter.

[LadyBug]

I have a center aisle barn with 4 stalls, a storage area, wash stall, tack room, feed room, and bathroom. I don’t really have any good pictures showing the layout, but I can take some if it would help (or maybe dig up the prints). Basically, the barn is about the length of a barn that would have 4 stalls on each side. Instead, there are 2 stalls on the right and left, and the other areas are in the back end of the barn.

Here is 1 photo where you can kind of see the wash stall past the stall doors. You can also see that the dutch doors are open to the outside. Just past the wash stall is the door to the small bathroom, and the feed room is beyond that.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f206/ColeyC12/2014-05-27202626_zps475dc23f.jpg

Each stall has a dutch door on the outside wall, and there are paddocks off each side of the barn. One side has 1 large paddock, the other side has 2 paddocks so each stall has a separate area. The indoor makes a “T” with the aisle, so our paddock space on each side is limited. Without the indoor, those areas could have been bigger.

I love that I can close up the barn completely, but I’m in the Northeast so that is important up here. I also love the dutch doors for light and fresh air, and the paddocks are great to have if the weather is crappy. In fact, when the horses are in they have access to them almost all of the time (with the exception of the dead of winter - like now!).

I’m happy with the barn layout - just wish we had separate hay storage instead of the hay loft. Otherwise, the layout works great for us. Sometimes I wish I had more stalls, but that would just mean I’d have more horses :winkgrin:

Good luck with your planning!

[AKB]

The only times I close my barn up are for farrier or vet work. Still, when we have freezing rain and wind on a farrier day, I am very happy to have my center aisle. My overhangs outside my stalls are only 8’. I wish they were 12’ so rain and snow would not blow in.

Have fun designing your barn.

[IPEsq]

[QUOTE=Bluey;7953684]
I would say, you may consider a shedrow barn with 6 12’ x 12’ spaces with 6’ overhang in front of them similar to a 12’ center aisle 36’ x 36’ structure, also with 6 12’ x 12’ spaces, as far as feet covered by that structure.

We may say, you are folding that shedrow in half and making it one center aisle barn.
That long shedrow is now a square half that length and twice the width and they should be comparable in cost.

So, for practically the same square feet, you have to decide which fits your location, purpose and your preferred look in a barn best.[/QUOTE]

I was just going by a rough quote I got from a barn builder–No matter how many ways I tried to rephrase the question to make it clear that it would be quite a long shedrow vs a 36x36 center aisle barn (and an “enclosed” shedrow style, meaning more roof and more wall than a traditional shedrow), I repeatedly got the answer that the shedrow would be less expensive. I will be honest, I can’t really wrap my brain around as to why, but I figured I’d put that information out there.

[Bluey]

[QUOTE=IPEsq;7956199]
I was just going by a rough quote I got from a barn builder–No matter how many ways I tried to rephrase the question to make it clear that it would be quite a long shedrow vs a 36x36 center aisle barn (and an “enclosed” shedrow style, meaning more roof and more wall than a traditional shedrow), I repeatedly got the answer that the shedrow would be less expensive. I will be honest, I can’t really wrap my brain around as to why, but I figured I’d put that information out there.[/QUOTE]

Even figuring the shedrow barn only had one door per stall, no doors on the back, the center aisle two doors, so four more doors to frame and build and hang, that should not really be that much more on the whole building.

Unless he can build saving on the materials in the shedrow, not frame it as well as he may have to for a center aisle.

[csaper58]

In the deep south, barns are built to be cool and breezy in the summer, winter is rarely cold enough to be a problem. Winter is never a constant cold, but summer is consistently, and brutally hot. High ceilings, walls that let air circulate, and over hangs that keep out the sun/heat are what is needed.

You will also want to budget for hurricane strapping, and any other building/ strengthening measures that code requires now.

If it is flat where you are, rain run-off, mud management will also be important.

[GypsyQ]

You will pay for width. The engineering and materials to make a roof span a greater width is going to cost more than running a narrow building for a longer length. The strength of materials to span a 24’ or 36’ distance will be significantly more than the strength of materials to span 12’. That is why you will see more long and narrow buildings when cost is a factor.

[diceuf]

[QUOTE=csaper58;7957023]
In the deep south, barns are built to be cool and breezy in the summer, winter is rarely cold enough to be a problem. Winter is never a constant cold, but summer is consistently, and brutally hot. High ceilings, walls that let air circulate, and over hangs that keep out the sun/heat are what is needed.

You will also want to budget for hurricane strapping, and any other building/ strengthening measures that code requires now.

If it is flat where you are, rain run-off, mud management will also be important.[/QUOTE]

I’ll definitely position it so the breeze will come thru the center isle. My horses are out 24/7, but I can’t decide if being able to close up the barn is necessary here in the Foothills. I just moved here from FL and so far this winter, I’ve locked them up in the stalls 1 time and that’s only because the barn they are at now doesn’t have a run-in.