GRANARIES of the ASTURIAS

Alternatives

From the traditional model, one can observe local or regional characteristics related on the culture or local materials.

Panera

It is a larger construction obtained by the lengthening of the horreo according to a direction. Its plan is thus rectangular and its roof always has 4 slopes but with a horizontal edge. This lengthening also leads to the increase in the feet of support of the beams and the floor, 6 feet generally and sometimes 8.

Paneras concentrate in the Western half of Asturias without to miss remainder of the province, that being able to depend on the importance of harvests.

The base of the pillars

A wide flat stone
A built base
A built room

A stone (pilpayo) protects the pillars bottom of moisture when they are out of wood.
If the horreo is posed on a room, it is used of handing-over, workshop, cattle shed.
But it can also be the last level of a raised dwelling. In this case, the feet can be absent, a projection of the attic on the frontage replacing the muela to prohibit the rise of the rodents.

Pillars

When they leave the ground, the pillars are raised and sometimes very high,
they are of reduced size when the horreo is posed on walls.
It can be fat or thin,
cut in a chesnut tree (exceptionally the muela is replaced by a piece of wood),
composed of only one stone,
or of the stacking of several levelled stones,
or composed of built slate blades.

Space under the horreo is often surrounded by low walls, on one or more dimensions.

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Alternatives From the traditional model, one can observe local or regional characteristics related on the culture or local materials.
Panera It is a larger construction obtained by the lengthening of the horreo according to a direction. Its plan is thus rectangular and its roof always has 4 slopes but with a horizontal edge. This lengthening also leads to the increase in the feet of support of the beams and the floor, 6 feet generally and sometimes 8.
	Paneras concentrate in the Western half of Asturias without to miss remainder of the province, that being able to depend on the importance of harvests.
The base of the pillars
A wide flat stone	A built base	A built room
A stone (pilpayo) protects the pillars bottom of moisture when they are out of wood. If the horreo is posed on a room, it is used of handing-over, workshop, cattle shed. But it can also be the last level of a raised dwelling. In this case, the feet can be absent, a projection of the attic on the frontage replacing the muela to prohibit the rise of the rodents.
Pillars

		When they leave the ground, the pillars are raised and sometimes very high, they are of reduced size when the horreo is posed on walls. It can be fat or thin, cut in a chesnut tree (exceptionally the muela is replaced by a piece of wood), composed of only one stone, or of the stacking of several levelled stones, or composed of built slate blades.
	Space under the horreo is often surrounded by low walls, on one or more dimensions.
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