This is the first recognized example of this type. It is 16x22 ft. with a low 9x13 ft. lean-to added on the northeast side. It is sheathed in corrugated steel and has an asphalt shingled gable-front roof. The right front stock door leads into a small storage room about 6 ft. deep across the front of the building, probably a tack room, with a square window in the center front. A doorway continues to the rear animal stable about 16 ft. square, which has a manger (probably recent) along the back wall of the storage room and a square window on the rear right. In the back wall is a Dutch door. Both rooms have an earth floor. The left front entry door opens into the steep stairway to the hayloft, which has a small window in the front gable and may have a tall hay door at the second floor level. The low lean-to has a cart door.
This looks remarkably similar, especially with the low lean-to, to the two-story smokehouse illustrated in Marshall's 1981 Folk Architecture in Little Dixie on p87, figure 4-13C. I presume this is just convergent evolution of form. One major but subtle difference is that the smokehouse is up on low piers and must have a wood floor, while this tower shed is on the ground and has no flooring. (Perhaps the smokehouse is a modified tower shed?)
