Thatched Barn
This thatched barn stands at the Weald and Downland Museum, an open-air showcase of old English buildings. The exhibits here are all genuine period pieces which were moved from their original locations and rebuilt on the museum's land. Some of the farm buildings were simply ruinous and in dire need of tender loving care, but the houses were all "listed buildings" which, nevertheless, had to be demolished to make room for new roads or other modern development.
This photograph shows a thatched barn clad with weatherboarding. The doors on either side of the barn are wide enough to admit a heavily laden wagon, and the corn which the wagon carried would be tossed down into one end of the barn. The same floor where the wagon drove was also used to thresh the grain. The doors would be left open during threshing, so that the through-draft carried away the chaff.
The Weald and Downland Museum is at Singleton, near Chichester, in the county of West Sussex (England).