There are higgledy-piggledy little huts — once used to store grain and cheese — flanking the car-free cobbled streets, and small, rustic chalet-style hotels.

The buildings still standing were used to store grain or gunpowder.

The villagers used to store grain close to the shrine, certain that nobody would steal it and thereby violate the sanctity of the shrine.

Once completed, the barn would have been used to thresh and store grain from the manor farm.

They are known as general stores (but not in the sense of department stores), and they were first used to store grain and flour.