A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill, or bank, both the upper and the lower floors area could be accessed from ground level, one area at the top of the hill and the other at the bottom. The second level of a bank barn also could be accessed from a ramp if a hill was not available.
Bank barns are especially common in the upland areas of Britain, in Northumberland and Cumbria in northern England and in Devon in the south-west.
History
The origins of bank barns in the UK are obscure. The bank barn had made its first appearance in Cumbria by the 1660s on the farms of wealthy farmers: here farmers bought drove cattle from Scotland and fattened them over winter before selling them in spring. The bank barn at Townend Farm, Troutbeck in former Cumberland was built for the prominent Browne family in 1666. The great majority of bank barns were built in Cumbria between 1750 and 1860, and the last were built just before the First World War.
Pequannock's Banked Barn was built of stone and timber into the foothills of the New Jersey Highlands overlooking the Pequannock Valley. The traditional banked design allows access to multiple levels within the barn from ground level on the outside, as the foundation is cut into a slope.
Located on private property, the barn fell into disrepair and finally collapsed inward in 2010. The foundation and collapsed walls remain at the site as of 2012.
The structure was added to the New Jersey Historic Register on July 29, 1981.
Since the 1970s the property has been privately owned by the Cook, Jones, and Harris families respectively. As of 2012 the property had changed hands to the McGrogan family.
Significance
Bank Barn presents historic significance to the region as it was one of the few remaining structures of its kind. The barn's design demonstrated the pioneering ingenuity of early settlers who, faced with an un-plowable hillside and lack of motorized winch and lift systems, utilized the landscape to their benefit through constructing a second floor that they could simply drive up to.
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The media covering the 1981Players was housed in the cart barn, shared a bank of phones, dictated our stories to editors and only guessed at the distances of putts and approach shots ...AugustineRecord and the Florida Times-Union ...
The couple added that hockey fans were invited to attend a watch party for the game at the farm’s Brew Barn, an event that will feature a Boston Bruins jersey signed by the entire team and donated by TD Bank as a raffle prize.
UTEP needed a DevonBarnes mid-court bank shot at the buzzer to get back within the final margin of two ... Barnes had 16 to lead six Miners in double figures, including Corey Camper, who had 15 points in ...
I feel a little out of kilter with the local running community at the moment. ... However, I’m not doing that. Deciding to do an earlier spring marathon at Barcelona meant banking my longer runs earlier – the hay is in the barn as they say... MORE ... .
Having stored the vehicles in a barn while values rocketed, each Defender is tuned with the company's own parts, including refitting the interior to adding more comfortable suspension and chassis upgrades, before being sold at a premium.
GREENCASTLE, Pa. — The Allison-Antrim Museum will host its first monthly speaker meeting of 2025 on Thursday, March 13. According to a community announcement, the event will take place in the GermanBank Barn, 365 S. Ridge Ave., Greencastle at 7 p.m.
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Jahson Marryshow (aka Jahson Solomon), 42, formerly of Woodstock, was convicted following a jury trial in 2015 of stealing a car, burning a barn and robbing a bank on June 30, 2010.
Posters of Barnes’s dialect poems decorate the walls ... “Silently I footed by an uphill road.” Near the Celtic cross that marks Barnes’s grave are banks of budding daffodils, furled garlic leaves and ivy-smothered trees where woodpeckers are drumming.
The perimeter structure of a large barn is already visible ... Old Clear Creek has overflowed its banks.” Water was flowing across the meadow, barn agility area, and surrounding land ... In the now-flooded barn, five llamas were locked inside.
“The property has been kept in immaculate condition and with regular interval checks,” replied Imperial’s administrator, Sarah Barnes... I had to borrow money from the bank at [an] astronomical rate.” This time, Barnes’s response was cold.
See over 1,000 acres. river views, creek access and farmland preserved in Hellam Township... The preserve also includes several historic structures, including a renovated 19th century bank barn and farmhouse and a restored 18th century log cabin.” ...
The Morning Call
03 Mar 2025
The Morning Call
03 Mar 2025