2 free starting plans
Horse barn plans
2 free center-aisle horse barn plans: the 36x24 with 4 stalls and the 36x48 with 8 stalls. Box stalls 12 x 12 ft on both sides of a 12 ft aisle, a sliding door at each end, drawn and priced by the barn designer.
- Plans
- 2
- Floor, sq ft
- 864 to 1,728
- Materials, about
- $15,600 to $25,300
- Preliminary checks
- All passed at 30 psf
Every size, drawn by the designer
Pick a horse barn size.
Each one is a full starting plan: framed, checked for 30 psf of ground snow, 115 mph of wind and a 36 in frost line, and priced. Switch the view to see the frame or the dimensions.
Drawn by the designer from this plan36x24
36x24 horse barn
Four 12x12 stalls on both sides of a 12 ft aisle, on three 8 ft bays.
- Floor
- 864 sq ft
- Eave
- 11'
- Stalls
- 4, 12 x 12 ft
- Posts
- 16, 3-ply 2x6
- Trusses
- 4 at 8', 36' span
- Bays
- 3 of 8'
Preliminary checks passed for the loads you entered. Local approval not checked.
Materials about $15,600, before tax and delivery
What it needs
What a horse barn has to hold.
Stalls and the aisle set the width, headroom sets the eave, and the doors and the snow set the rest.
02Headroom
10' clear, and these plans give 11'.
The designer looks for 8' of clear height in a horse barn at the least and 10' recommended, and flags anything lower. Both plans here have 11' eaves, so the check passes; a lower eave saves steel and post length but gets flagged.
03Doors
A sliding door at each end.
Both plans have a 12' x 9' sliding door in each gable end, so you can walk a horse straight down the aisle and out the other end. Each opening takes a 2-ply 2x10 header, which uses 79% of its limit at 30 psf of snow.
05Floor
Drawn on a dirt floor.
As drawn, the stalls and the aisle sit on the ground, so there is no slab in the total. The designer can switch the floor to gravel or a concrete slab and prices it. Ask your building department whether the barn needs a permit where you build; some places exempt farm buildings and some do not.
Side by side
Both horse barn plans compared.
| Plan | Floor | Eave | Stalls | Posts | Trusses | Materials, about | Labor if hired, broad reference | Build time | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36x2436x24 horse barn | 864 sq ft | 11' | 4 stalls | 16 | 4 at 8' | $15,600 | $4,320 to $12,960 | 150 to 225 h | Passed |
 36x4836x48 horse barn | 1,728 sq ft | 11' | 8 stalls | 22 | 7 at 8' | $25,300 | $8,640 to $25,920 | 235 to 340 h | Passed |
Each row is the starting plan as drawn, for 30 psf of ground snow, 115 mph of wind and a 36 in frost line. Materials are rounded: shelf prices plus the estimated trusses and concrete, before sales tax, delivery, labor and site work. Each plan page keeps the shelf prices, the estimate and the exact sum apart. Labor is the published range for hiring it out, a broad reference and not a quote; build time is total labor hours. Passed means the preliminary checks passed for those loads; local approval is not checked.
What they cost
About $15,600 to $25,300 in materials.
Each plan's materials list, priced line by line, with the stall partitions: shelf prices plus the trusses and the concrete for the post pads, estimated from published ranges. Hired labor is apart and only a broad reference from published price guides, not a quote; the table above has it plan by plan.
- Lowest
- $15,600, 36x24
- Highest
- $25,300, 36x48
- Per sq ft of floor
- $14.65 to $18.11
- Labor if hired, broad reference
- $4,320 to $25,920
Excluded: sales tax, delivery, permits, site work, engineering and equipment rental
The pole barn cost guide breaks it down by group, and the pole barn cost calculator runs the same numbers for your own size.
Materials for each horse barn plan
Shelf prices read at Summertown Metals price list, Summertown, Tennessee store, Oct 13, 2026; Home Depot, Hamilton Mill store, Oct 13, 2026; Home Depot, Hamilton Mill store, Oct 8, 2026; Summertown Metals price list, Hayden, Alabama store, Oct 13, 2026; Lowe's, Atlanta-Edgewood store, Oct 8, 2026; Best Buy Metals online store, Knoxville, Tennessee, Oct 13, 2026; Home Depot, Bronx Terminal store, Sep 30, 2026; Tractor Supply, Wichita West, Kansas store, Oct 13, 2026; Summertown Metals price list, Hopkinsville, Kentucky store, Oct 13, 2026; and The Cheshire Horse online store, Swanzey, New Hampshire, Oct 13, 2026, before tax and delivery. Estimates are the middle of the published ranges in HomeGuide, roof truss prices by span (Jan 2026), read Oct 13, 2026.
Each total is the shelf-price lines plus the common trusses and gable-end trusses, estimated from published ranges and kept apart on each plan page. Your supplier quotes the final price for those.
Labor if you hire it out, 36x24: Median of the published figures $6,480 for 864 sq ft at $5 to $15 per sq ft (HomeGuide, Jan 2026: $5 to $10; Angi, May 2026: $5 to $15). A sourced range for erecting a post-frame shell (posts, trusses, steel), not a quote. A broad reference from published price guides, not a quote or a forecast for your site.
The $39 builder's plan
Free to plan. $39 to build from.
Every plan above is free to open, check and price. The builder's plan is drawn from the barn you finish, for one payment. These are real sheets from the 23-sheet plan for the 30x40 pole barn.
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- The design in 3D, and every change you make to it
- Every preliminary check, with its rule and its source
- The materials list priced line by line
- A summary PDF of the design and its checks
$39 once
- The post layout, every post dimensioned from one corner
- Every wall framed: girts, headers and openings with heights
- The truss order sheet to hand the truss maker
- The roof frame and the steel, panel by panel
- The cut list, the shopping list with store prices and the build, step by step
You check out in the designer, with your design loaded. If the plan has an error, we fix it or refund you within 30 days. Guarantee terms.
Real sheets from the 23-sheet sample plan for the 30x40 pole barn
01Post layout
02Wall framing
05Truss order sheet
04Shopping list
Questions
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Questions about horse barn plans
For stalls on both sides of a center aisle, 36 ft: two 12 x 12 ft box stalls and a 12 ft aisle. The designer can narrow the aisle to 10 ft, the least we draw. Both of our horse barn plans are 36 ft wide.
The materials for our 36x24 horse barn with 4 stalls come to about $15,600, before sales tax, delivery, labor and site work: $14,349.44 at shelf prices plus $1,300.00 for the trusses and the post pads, estimated from published ranges, exact sum $15,649.44. Hired labor adds $4,320 to $12,960, a broad reference from published price guides, not a quote; built yourself it is about 150 to 225 labor hours.
Yes. Our 36x24 horse barn plan is free: 4 box stalls on a 12' aisle, 16 posts and 4 trusses, with a priced materials list and a summary PDF. For more stalls, the 36x48 has 8.
The designer looks for 10' of clear height, with 8' as the least it accepts without a flag. Our horse barn plans have 11' eaves, so both pass.
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