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Sleepy Hollow Timber Frame Barn
A timber-frame barn raised in Francestown with a hayloft, a climate-controlled tack room, and a hundred-year standing-seam roof. Built in collaboration with HDA Carpentry.
How It Was Made
From a poured slab to a barn built to outlast us.
Notes from the bench, in Dan's own words.
Site and foundation
This one is a joint project with HDA Carpentry. After the planning, variances, and wetlands work were sorted out, we had the digging, foundation, and concrete floor put in, then showed up to raise the barn.
Raising the frame
It is a hybrid timber frame: timber-frame in design and structure, built with big eight-by-eights and six-by-sixes, then tied together with long modern GRK fasteners and box beams for strength and speed.
Double-board siding
The siding is double board: a first layer of pine sprayed gray so any gaps will not flash white, then a second layer offset by half a board to cover every seam. No wind, no water, and a classic barn look.
Windows, doors, and the cupola
We used Marvin windows in the climate-controlled connector and tack room, built our own rolling doors and tracks on site, and topped it with a functional cupola whose cedar vents pull moisture up out of the hayloft.
The timber-frame interior
Inside there are kick walls of tongue-and-groove southern yellow pine up to about four feet, so animals and tractors can bump them without harm, and pre-finished pine above, whitewashed to bounce light around the space.
The standing-seam roof
Andy and I did the standing-seam steel roof ourselves. It snaps together, sheds wind and water, and is basically a hundred-year roof.
The barn today
We are still finishing details and renovating the old building beside it, but the barn is up, the cupola is venting, and it has been a great project to be part of.
I build every piece to last for generations, with the same attention to the wood, the joinery, and the finish that went into this one. If you have something in mind for your own home, I would love to talk it through.
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