basic division of rooms in the living areas of Geestharden and Uthland-Frisian houses was the same, the rooms in the working area were laid out differently. Geestharden house In the Geestharden house adjacent to the living area was usually a threshing floor called the Loo or Loohdiele, followed by the stall, a hall or threshing floor (Diele) and the hay store or Bansenraum. All these rooms had doors onto the street on the side of the eaves, so that the building had several entrances on that side. On the back of the building often ran a long under the eaves passageway which joined the individual rooms. Above the entrances to the Loo and Diele in the working area were often round dormers (Rundgauben), to allow the entrances to be higher. Because of the method of construction, the working area could be extended either into an L-shaped building or even a in the shape of a square with an inner courtyard, depending on the situation. The latter type is known as a four-sided farmstead or Vierseithof. Uthland-Frisian house The living area in the Uthland-Frisian house is also separated from the working area, but it has entrances at the gable end of the house and none along the sides. The stalls and storage rooms are accessed from a long passageway in the middle of the building, as in the Lower Saxon house. These farmhouses are mainly found in very exposed locations and are therefore almost always built in an east–west orientation in order to present as small an area as possible to the prevailing west winds. The living area is always on the eastern, leeward, side. References Vernacular architecture Farmhouses Architecture in Germany House styles Architecture in Denmark Architecture of Schleswig-Holstein