Colquarnel

Colquarnel is a house that likely dates from the 17th century or earlier, constructed of stone rubble. It features a steeply pitched slate roof with gable ends, an end stack on the right, and an axial stack to the left of centre. The layout is unusual and its original arrangement is uncertain, but it may have originally consisted of three rooms with a through passage, entering to the right of centre. The right room is heated by an end stack, while a small narrow room above the passage is unheated, and the left room is heated by an axial stack in the lower cross wall. The front entrance to the passage has been blocked, and there is no evidence of a screen on the lower side of the passage. The cross wall on the higher side extends up to the apex. Currently, the entrance leads directly into the narrow central unheated room, which serves as a stair hall with a 20th-century stair at the rear. There are remains of a 17th-century stair turret behind the left room.

The house has two storeys and an asymmetrical four-window front. The ground floor features an entrance to the left of centre, accessed through a small single-storey 19th-century pumphouse. To the left, there is a 20th-century glazed door, with two-light casements in the earlier entrance and a three-light casement to the right. The first floor has three two-light casements and a three-light casement to the right.

Inside, the central room has fairly slight chamfered ceiling beams. The right room contains chamfered beams with run-out stops. The fireplace in the left room features a chamfered granite lintel and jambs, and behind it are the jambs of a 17th-century door frame leading to the stair turret. This stair has been modified, with the projection enlarged to create a bathroom, but part of the stair remains, featuring granite treads. The roof structure is not accessible.