Jones Brothers Granite Shed

Narrative Description 

                        

 The granite shed on the Jones Brothers property in Barre, Vermont is a long, gabled front building with two shed roofed sheds on either side of the main body. The main body of the granite shed consists of a six bay gable end (running east to west) by a twenty two bay eave side (north to south).

  The gable end of the main body consists of six narrow double hung nine over nine windows, though the window to the far left consists only of the upper half. The first story finds identical nine over nine windows directly below the upper six, though there is some variation in actual fenestration. The first bay on the left has no window opening. The second and third bays mirror the windows on the upper story, while the fourth, fifth and sixth bay are taken up by a double wooden door hinged on top on a bar roller system. The exterior siding is simple weathered wooden clapboard while the window and door casing are unadorned 1x4 wood. Five small cupolas cap the roof ridge, though the first (or most easterly) cupola is missing

  On either eave side of the main body is a shed addition running almost the entire length of the main body. The sheds are attached to about four fifths of the height of the eave side of the main body. The area between the roof connection of the sheds and the remaining eave wall of the main body is perforated by 22  evenly distributed bays of horizontally placed 9/9 double hung windows.

  The gable end of each shed addition is perforated by an unusual set of windows. Two fixed nine paned windows are set directly next to each other and topped by two fixed six paned windows directly over. The upper windows are separated from the lower windows with six inches of clapboarded wall.

  The eave sides of the attached sheds is made up of 20 bays of another fenestration pattern which repeats itself in each bay. Each bay contains two 9/9 double hung windows which are separated by six inches of clapboard. Straddling these two 9/9 windows and clapboard is a 9/9 double hung window placed horizontally four inches above the set.

  On the north eave side of the granite shed, the ninth bay contains a wooden door rather than a window. After the 12th bay, the shed roof continues along its line to enclose a shed extension, with 2 window bays in the gable end and five in the extended eave side. The extended shed cuts back similarly to the original shed and the remaining five bays continue.

  On the south eave side of the granite shed, the ninth bay leads into another similar shed extension, but in this case, another extension of approximately six bays rests behind this shed extension. A door rests in the third bay and the rest are filled with a window pattern similar to the fenestration on the shed additions.

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