Stable and Cowhouse at Hygga Farm

The stable and cowhouse range at Hygga Farm is a long, rectangular, single-story building with an attic, dating to an unknown period but likely the 18th or 19th century. It is constructed of roughly coursed local sandstone blocks, with dressed stone around the openings, and has an asbestos sheeting roof. A single-story, lean-to addition is attached to the right-hand (downslope) end, built of roughly coursed sandstone with brick dressings and a slate roof.

The main three-bay southwest-facing elevation looks into the farmyard. It features three large, four-centred doorways slightly offset to the left. There are wide, two-light mullion windows to the left of the left-hand and central doorways. The right-hand doorway has a square window to its left and a blocked ventilation slit to its right. A small window is present in the lean-to. The rear elevation has three bays; it includes a tall, inserted opening to the left, a centrally positioned four-centred door (now blocked) offset to the left, a smaller square-headed door to the right, and a small square window with a four-pane timber casement and single-sided shutter pintels. A door provides access to the lean-to addition. The northwest gable has a door at attic level, flanked by ventilation slits, with further slits above.

The interior is divided into three ground-floor bays. The central and left bays are fully lofted. The right bay is full height with a half-width first floor, likely inserted later. The left-hand bay (upslope) is accessed from the yard side and has windows on both sides. It retains a central chamfered beam with run-out stops and three vertical sockets on its underside, suggesting earlier partitioning, possibly for stabling. The central bay has opposing doors, two chamfered beams with run-out stops, a loft access through a floor near the yard-side door, and stair access to above against the rear wall. The opposing doorways and arrangement of beams suggest it functioned as a cowhouse with a central feeding passage and stalls on either side. The right-hand bay has had its original gable wall removed to allow access to the lean-to addition but retains two opposing doors (both blocked, with the front partially blocked) and a queen-strut and collar roof truss above. The stair from the central bay leads to the loft above, which has collar beam roof trusses and full-height internal walls on either side. The wall to the right is plastered and without openings, while the wall to the left is plastered and has a central door providing access through. The left-hand attic has queen-strut and collar roof trusses, a gable door with blocked ventilation slits above and to the sides, and evidence of lath and plaster on the underside of the rafters.