Frisian farmhouse

A "Head-Neck-Body farmhouse" (Dutch: kop-hals-rompboerderij) or Head-Neck-Rump farmhouse is a typical Frisian farmhouse. It consists of a residence (the head) and a kitchen (the neck) placed in line in front of a big shed (the body). A striking fact is that the residence was never built in the centre front of the shed – this has to do with the origin of this type of farmhouse from a smaller type of farmhouse that has now disappeared.

The medieval Old Frisian longhouse (or byre dwelling) consisted of a residence with a byre for cattle built immediately behind it. The harvest was stacked in the attic or in open barns which were logically located near the livestock quarters.

The Frisian farm (a farmhouse with an attached Frisian barn or Gulfscheune) can be found in Friesland and Groningen It must be distinguished from the Haubarg in North Holland and Schleswig-Holstein (with living quarters integrated in the barn), and the Oldambt farm, which in Germany is also called the Ostfriesenhaus or Gulf house.

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