The barn houses the farm's entire winter food stock for the farmer's horses and cattle, and its value is immeasurable beyond words. Other less scrupulous farmers have been known to steal the hand-tied bales of hay in the dead of night to replenish their own dwindling stocks, so this farmer had built a small cottage very close to the barn and housed one of his bachelor farm workers there as its custodian -- a sort of one-man bothy. He no doubt has a dog, too, who would respond to the slighest hint of a nocturnal visitor. The cottage is of the simplest design, built of stone around a central chimney and divided crudely into a living and a sleeping end.
   The barn has only one complete stone wall; the other three sides are left open. The roof is supported by several pillars which, unusually, are also made of stone rather than wood or metal. This gives the whole barn added strengh against whatever weather the winter may bring. There is a barn just like this at the Welsh Folk Museum at St. Fagans, Cardiff, and David referred to an illustration of it whilst sculpting the piece.