Don you have the Bucksport barn right on, and its roof was changed to a gambrel.
The local barn has a full top plate setting on the post, atop that and let into the plate by about half is the ties, and the rafters set on the ties. So If you visualize the top plate dropped about 8"-12" you could have a CG barn, they must me direct cousins, maybe incest was involved, that close.
The top connecting girt can be at different levels, we saw that in the 3 examples. There is the variation where the CG is connected to the tie in a segmented unit as well, that's CG also? Plate height doesn't determine CG, they don't have plates?
Just across the road a tad is a large barn with common rafters. I don't think one prevails over the other, a nice mix present in the area.
