The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 4 letter word DUTCH BARN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DUTCH BARN
- Wife to lock new farm building
- Farm building may make wife and child disheartened
- Where farmer can keep things from wife – right inside bar
- Wife and child, not I, in farm building
- Director mistakenly cut Roach’s last saloon number in storage on farm
- Wife and child one’s taken out somewhere on the farm?
- Wife and powerful businessman disposing of old farm building
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The straight part
We know that "farm building" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case farm building = dutch barn.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.