DESCRIPTION

A building comprised of multiple elements, based on the common building tradition of big house, little house, back house, and barn.

PURPOSE

1. To allow for a larger house through an optional series of attachments that might not otherwise be possible.
2. The connected farmhouse is a traditional manner of deploying agricultural buildings, so that they assume a predictable, sequenced series of forms.

BUILDING & COMPONENT TYPES

STANDARDS

1. A barn and house on the same lot separated from each other by no more than 100 feet may be linked together with a series of accessory buildings and components.
2. The link may be comprised of as many as 3 components or accessory buildings, distinct from the house or barn.
3. Each massing component that forms part of the link, must attach to either the barn or the primary building.
4. Each accessory building that forms part of the link must attach directly to the primary building or barn; or to massing components or accessory buildings that are attached to the primary building or barn.
5. Architectural components may attach to any massing component or accessory building in the link subject to the standards for each respective component/ accessory building.
6. No building may be located closer to the primary frontage than the primary building, with the exception of a barn.
7. The primary entrance to the primary building may be located either on the buildings front, or on its side.