Why does the barn have no walls?

Definitely don't want the cattle accessing/eating it in the storage area/barn. The barn here was designed (and used) where the hay could be dropped right into the hay racks from the hay stack.

There was a property out by my parents' and they built a barn like that. It made me scratch my head every time I passed by. The main house is a two story with dormer windows in the attic and the barn has metal support beams, like a pole barn and the roof is identical to the roof of their "people" house, with dormer windows, same height as the roof of their two story house.

Every time I passed by, I kept expecting to see sides added. It looks so odd, like they were building a house backwards.

Barbara Kochan wrote:Looks like a well designed hay barn to me. The hay barn here is a simple pole building a bit over "2 stories" in height and the former owner tells of stacking hay to the roof on a good year.

If there is no ceiling/floor to the top story the hip roof design, I bet, would keep the condensation that WILL collect on the inside of the roof from dripping onto the hay, and the windows can help minimize excess heat and also condensation.

Ah! Good point. I hadn't thought of the condensation factor. It's not a problem here, so no need for a ceiling under the roof. But on the Wet Coast ...

I remember Eustace Conway having a barn like this in one of his documentaries or on his tv show.I can't remember which one it was.

I saw the cows eating in there, but appears to let them in only a few at a time and there is machinery between the rows of cows.  The rest of the cows wait in a line.  Then there are some just lazing in the pasture.

There were no visible humans.