12' by 12' seems to be a standard size I've seen and read about. They need room for the rare time they lay down. Get too small and someone can get hurt when a horse gets a little giddy. Get too big and the horse wants to play keep away. As far as height, go as high as possible. My barn has 8' ceilings and horses have bumped their heads on the rafters and broke out the lights. Put lights up into the rafters. Horses can get claustrophic very easy so the more open space the better. Design it so you have some feed bunks accessible from one side for feeding hay. Same for water. A alley way down the middle is handy for that.
Mine has a feed bunk at the end of the stall. I added fence and bracing all the way to the ceiling and cut a hole in the floor of the loft for dropping hay down. That was back when we put small bales in the loft.
If you feed big bales, leave the side/end open so you can move them in out of the rain.
Make sure any horse ties are solid so the horse don't pull your barn supports down. I have some old rubber inner tubes tied to the posts and tie on horse to them. It will stretch and then release the pressure when the horse quits pulling. I held out a tube of wormer last week and one horse pulled back and pulled that old scrap pile inner tube apart. I think it had a tear in it anyway. He didn't pull the second one apart.
Have a place for feed storage and a cabinet for tack that will keep the dust and crud off of it. We've been using a stall for storage since we don't use the stalls any more. They just roam free.
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