The hay barn in Mathon is a striking example of a typology built by travelling carpenters (the “Valser”) from the 16th century onwards. Those “prefabricated” log houses were changed in time, extended, partially rebuilt for repair or dislocated and rebuilt elsewere. The oldest parts of the barn might be around 300 years old and, according to the wood work quality in the lower part of the building, the stables has been rebuilt below the original hay part after second world war.







