Crickside Barns specializes in building rustic pine or board & batten portable horse barns, pavilions, horse barns, storage sheds, & timber buildings.

Crickside Barns focuses foremost on integrity and customer satisfaction. We know a satisfied customer is our best advertisement. To accomplish this we begin with skilled and honest craftsmen and quality lumber. At Crickside, our goal is to focus more on quality than on quantity. We started building horse barns and run in shelters in 2004 in an old bank barn on our premises. Our business had grown enough by 2005 to build a new shop where our modular structures are built and our timber frame com...

Crickside Barns focuses foremost on integrity and customer satisfaction. We know a satisfied customer is our best advertisement. To accomplish this we begin with skilled and honest craftsmen and quality lumber. At Crickside, our goal is to focus more on quality than on quantity. We started building horse barns and run in shelters in 2004 in an old bank barn on our premises. Our business had grown enough by 2005 to build a new shop where our modular structures are built and our timber frame components are prepared. We began our storage building venture with board and batten because we appreciate the rustic appearance and wood is readily available in our rural setting in Central Pennsylvania. We select wood types in construction to capitalize on the strengths of wood species. In horse barns we use oak to discourage horses from chewing the wood. We use pine for the siding in the majority of our structures. Most of our pavilion/pergola structures are made of hemlock because it is a wood that weathers well and easy to work with. We have other wood species available upon customer request. Our senior partner had quite a few years of timber frame experience. At first sometimes people would ask about doing porch frames etc and therefore we began by starting out with a few of these projects. From there timber framing of barns and even entire houses took hold. We enjoy the craftsmanship and challenge of timber frame construction because of the skill and craftsmanship that is required. While our company home is nestled in the foothills of Sherman’s Valley, in Perry County Pennsylvania, our normal work area includes all of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and New York. We also travel to more distant areas as well.