Description of Carl FAEHRMANN's barn built for Gottfried LUBASCH, now on the land of Beerenberg Farm.

Beerenberg German Barn, Conservation & Management Plan, by Lothar Brasse 2004.

Standing with the Beerenberg Factory behind you.

• This is the rear of the barn
• The front double doors face immediately west.
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It is a square 9.5 m x 9.5 m with a 2.3 m wide learn to along the eastern length.

Roof

•  Gabled roof
• approx pitch 45 degrees,
• originally with timber shingles
• made of local stringy bark
• Shingles require buttons every 8" / 20.32 cms
• Collar tie & beamed truss system
• Corrugated iron has replaced the original timber shingles.

Flooring

• No subfloor ventilation
• Red Gum floor planks had wooden dowels holding them together
• Pre drilled hole
• 285 x 65 laid on cours sand, dowelled to bearers at approx 1000cc also bedded on coarse sand

Walls

• Typical half-timbered with top & bottom plates, posts, braces and intermediate horizontal rails.
• Panels were filled with wattle & daub around staves
• Bricks & stones were inserted to select areas.

Bent braces

Staves

• 10 vertical staves to every panel
• Top holes
• Bottom groove
• Sharp on both ends
• Put top stave in and then jam in the bottom 
• & knock it along.

Mezzanine Floor

• Above the southern area.