People move here for the district and end up on an acre or two of what used to be ranchland. That land needs a different building than a subdivision backyard does. We build both, on your property or delivered finished.
Aledo ISD covers around 130 square miles. The City of Aledo covers about two and a half. Almost everybody who says they live in Aledo bought the district rather than the city, and their mail proves nothing about which government writes their building rules.
That gap is the whole character of this place. The district reaches into Annetta, Annetta North and South, Hudson Oaks, Willow Park, Cresson and a long stretch of Fort Worth on the Parker County side. Walsh alone runs about 7,200 acres and sits inside Fort Worth city limits while carrying a 76008 address and sending kids to Bearcat schools.
What it means for a building: you are probably not on a quarter-acre. You may be on one acre, or two, or twenty, with a tractor to keep out of the weather and a coverage rule you have never read. We size around that rather than around a standard suburban backyard.
Inside city limits the binding constraint is coverage, not setbacks. Most people have that backwards.
Two-acre minimum lot, and total building coverage capped at ten percent. On a flat two acres that works out around 8,700 square feet for every structure combined. The house and garage come out of that number before the barn does.
One-acre minimum with coverage allowed up to thirty-five percent, which is a far looser ceiling than the Agriculture district despite the smaller lot. Worth knowing which one your tract is zoned before you draw anything.
Seven thousand square feet minimum, sixty percent coverage. Roughly the size of an ordinary metroplex lot, which is exactly why an Estate tract feels like six of them and an Agriculture tract like twelve.
Two more from the same code that catch people. Only one main building is allowed per lot, with accessory buildings around it, so the barn has to read as accessory rather than as a second residence. And adding an accessory building to an existing conforming single-family use does not, by itself, trigger the platting requirement. Confirm the current standards with the city before ordering, and if you are outside the city, see the county question in the FAQ below.
Parker County earned the cutting-horse reputation honestly, and the county livestock show and Frontier Days rodeo calendar keep it current. A good share of the buildings we put up around Aledo have a horse somewhere in the story.
Which changes the design. Hay belongs in a loft where air moves through it. Feed belongs in sealed bins, off the floor, away from anything that chews. Tack needs air dry enough that leather survives an August without mildew. Stack all three in one undivided box and you will lose at least one of them.
Then the rule almost nobody checks. Inside Aledo city limits, the code defines a private stable as an accessory building standing at least one hundred feet off adjacent property lines, and it allows one horse per acre. That is a different siting problem than a ten-foot shed setback. Tell us early whether an animal will ever be in the building.
Same family crew and the same materials. What changes is how it arrives.
We haul lumber down the drive and build where the building will stand. Nothing has to clear a cattle guard, a gate post or a low limb. The route for oversized barns, custom spans and ground that rolls.
Standard sizes arrive complete and get set the same day. If your drive is wide and the pad is reachable, this is usually quickest from deposit to done.
Long private drives, gates and turning room decide it more than lot size does. Measure your narrowest gate and the turn from the drive onto the pad, then call. We will tell you straight which way works.
Family owned, same framing standard on a 10x12 as on a 16x32. We are not shipping you a flat-pack kit to sort out yourself on a Saturday.
Built to the size, siding and color you choose.
Gambrel roof and real loft overhead. The default out here, because hay goes up and everything else stays down. Starts at $2,860.
Straight gable, most square footage per dollar, and the quietest profile if the building will sit in view of the house. Starts at $2,384.
Windows and trim detail for the ones that live near the house rather than out by the fence line. Starts at $3,393.
Wider doors for equipment, insulation, a bench wall, electrical rough-in, or a partitioned tack and feed end. Tell us the use and we frame to it.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x8 | $2,384 |
| 10x12 | $3,900 |
| 12x16 | $5,376 |
| 12x24 | $7,200 |
| 12x32 | $9,200 |
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x8 | $2,860 |
| 10x12 | $4,622 |
| 12x16 | $6,380 |
| 12x24 | $8,136 |
| 16x32 | $14,776 |
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x10 | $3,393 |
| 10x12 | $4,722 |
| 12x16 | $6,496 |
| 12x20 | $7,370 |
| 12x24 | $8,951 |
Spring here is not theoretical. In late April 2026 a single supercell tracked from Jack County through Wise, Parker and Tarrant. The National Weather Service recorded an EF1 tornado near Springtown that damaged dozens of homes, businesses and outbuildings along a path close to ten miles long, along with baseball-size hail in Parker County. Days later an EF3 near Mineral Wells became the strongest tornado in the county since 1990.
The rest of the year is heat and swing. Weatherford's climate normals put average July and August highs a shade under ninety-five degrees, on roughly thirty-five inches of rain a year that mostly arrives in bursts.
So the building gets anchored, not just set. Roof decking and shingles rated for hail country, framing on sixteen-inch centers, treated runners clear of standing water, and venting sized so an August afternoon has an exit. Then the foundation gets matched to whatever your particular corner of ground turns out to be.
Aledo itself, the Annetta communities, the Walsh and Morningstar developments, and the Deer Creek acreage. If your road feeds onto FM 1187, FM 5 or Old Weatherford Road, you are in our normal run.
Neighboring towns run on their own pages, because the rules genuinely change as you cross a city line. Out toward the county seat, see Weatherford sheds and barns. North of the interstate, Springtown covers that stretch. East into Tarrant County, try our Fort Worth page.
An acre or two means real mowing, and a brush hog left in the weather is a brush hog you replace early.
Loft above, sealed bins below, tack on a dry wall. Divided properly the same building does all three.
The county youth livestock show runs on 4-H and FFA families who need somewhere clean to keep equipment and feed.
Door height and approach angle decide this one long before floor area does.
Welder, bench, compressor and lighting, insulated so it is usable in July as well as January.
Generators, covers and chainsaws where you can reach them, which after a spring like 2026 stops being hypothetical.
What goes inside, how the drive runs, and whether you are inside city limits or out in the county. That last answer changes the rest.
A real number with options priced separately. Nothing shows up on the invoice that was not on the quote.
We walk the pad, check the ground and confirm placement against setbacks, septic and easements before anything is fixed.
Framed on your land or delivered and set. We clean up behind ourselves before we pull out.
Parker County states plainly that it does not issue building permits or certificates of occupancy, and that there are no zoning requirements in the unincorporated county. That surprises people moving in from Tarrant. It does not mean nothing applies. Septic setbacks, floodplain development, stormwater, your deed restrictions and any plat conditions all still govern where a building can sit. Confirm your own situation with the county before we set anything.
Less than most people assume, and the limit is coverage rather than setbacks. The city's Agriculture district carries a two-acre minimum lot and caps total building coverage at ten percent. On a flat two acres that is roughly 8,700 square feet for everything combined, house and garage included, not 8,700 for the barn. The Estate district runs a one-acre minimum at thirty-five percent. Add up what is already standing before you size the new building.
Considerably. Inside Aledo city limits the code defines a private stable as an accessory building set back at least one hundred feet from adjacent property lines, and it limits keeping to one horse per acre. A ten-foot shed setback and a hundred-foot stable setback are not the same conversation. Tell us at quote time whether a horse will ever stand in it, because that single answer moves where the building can legally go.
Sometimes, and sometimes forty feet away you will not. Aledo sits where the Fort Worth Prairie runs into the West Cross Timbers. That means sandy loam in some spots and thin soil over hard limestone in others, occasionally on the same property. We probe before we commit to a foundation plan rather than assuming the whole pad behaves the same way. Shallow rock changes the pier depth, not whether the job gets done.
Yes, with the interior divided properly. Hay wants airflow above and off the ground, feed wants sealed bins away from damp and rodents, and tack wants dry, stable air so leather does not mildew through August. A barn-style building gives you the loft for hay and the floor for everything else. We frame the partitions and the venting during the build instead of leaving you to retrofit it later.
That is a normal request out here. Door height and approach matter more than floor area for equipment storage, so we size the opening around what actually has to go through it rather than around a catalogue number. Bring us the tallest thing you own and the turning room you have between the drive and the pad. Note that inside city limits a carport is capped at thirty-six feet on its longest dimension.
Tell us the acreage, what already stands on it and what has to fit inside. You get a written number with the options priced separately. Financing runs with no payments for the first 90 days, subject to credit approval.
Mon–Fri 7:30am–5:30pm
Sat 9am–1pm
Fort Worth Shed-Design Center
14135 US-287, Fort Worth TX 76179