Tag: Barn

A Window on a Distressed Barn

Not long ago, I showed you a local barn I’m fond of. Now it’s time for another.

I often walk along the river bank towards the next village, and pass an attractive low-key campsite en route. And on this site is this elderly yet still serviceable barn…

Well, when I say ‘serviceable’, that’s unless you need to get through some of the doors. But the windows look fine, and windows are what Monday Window is all about. Every time I pass, I look at the layers of brick and ston , the iron retaining clasps that hold the whole thing together, and wonder what stories this venerable building, once part of a watermill, could tell…

For Ludwig’s Monday Window, hosted this week by Brian of Bushboy’s World fame.

An Elderly Barn

Near to us is an ancient barn, unused apart from housing bits and pieces that somebody at sometime, decided needed storage space, and has probably long forgotten. The windows are broken, the woodwork rotten, the paintwork peeling. It’s ear-marked for development sometime soon and will be treated sympathetically and with respect. That’ll be good for its long-term future, but meanwhile, I’m rather fond of this distressed and decayed old building, and have chosen it for Egidio’s Stuck in Place challenge, where he invites us to stay close to home, and to spend a good half hour wandering nowhere very much, to see what we can see.