Where we live now, their is no barn(AZ for you). What they call a barn is a roof being held up by eight steel poles. All open, no sides. I think they call it a mare barn.
It helps with shade, but is worthless during storms.
When we move to CO this summer, we are going to have a barn. When Kari looks at pictures of property, she ignores the house. She looks for any barns or outbuildings. She has even thought about having a barn with living quarters but on property.
One of the places we looked at, when we had to move from OK to MO, we only saw pictures of the house. The landlord would never send us pictures of the barn. We where in a hurry to find a place(had been living in a motel for 6 weeks), so we went for it. The barn was huge(16 stalls), but the landlords 16 big horses had damaged it(a lot). The barn needed to be bulldozed and a new barn put in it's place. We didn't live their long, three months.