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
Byre-dwelling
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A byre-dwelling is a farmhouse in which the living quarters are combined with the livestock and/or grain barn under the same roof. In the latter case, the building is also called a housebarn in Americ
Old Frisian longhouse
…An old Frisian longhouse (German: Altfriesisches Bauernhaus) was a long-bodied byre-dwelling (Wohnstallhaus) or longhouse that was widespread in the Dutch and Frisian North Sea coastal marshes from the Later Middle Ages until the 18th or 19th…
A reconstruction
A model
Bregenzerwälderhaus in Bezau, Vorarlberg (Austria)
Modern era byre-dwelling in Bavaria (Eckersdorf, Upper Franconia), list of cultural monuments of Bayern, no. D-4-72-131-24.