Old Frisian longhouse
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An old Frisian longhouse was a long-bodied byre-dwelling or longhouse that was widespread in the Dutch and Frisian North Sea coastal marshes from the Later Middle Ages until the 18th or 19th century.
Drawing of a longhouse by Joost Hiddes Halbertsma, c. 1850. (1) dwelling quarters or "interior house" (binhús), (2) kitchen and dairy room, or "middle house" (milhús), and (3) byre or "cow house" (bûthús).
Old Frisian longhouse in Warten, Friesland, 1967
Longhouse in Warten after restoration
Byre of the longhouse of Wartena, 1967
Frisian farmhouse
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A "Head-Neck-Body farmhouse" or Head-Neck-Rump farmhouse is a typical Frisian farmhouse. It consists of a residence and a kitchen placed in line in front of a big shed. A striking fact is that the res
Old Frisian longhouse
…It combined the farmer's living area with a byre or animals' stall, and had limited space for storing harvest products. It is the forerunner of the "head-neck-body" or Frisian farmhouse, the gulf house and the "stolp farmhouse" or haubarg. Sometimes an existing byre was incorporated into a newly erected Frisian barn, which was built…
A typical Frisian Head-Neck-Body farmhouse
Head-neck-rump farm with moat, possibly built in the first half of the 16th century
Drawing of an earlier "longhouse type"
Drawing of an earlier "longhouse type" in evolution