Cottage At Carne Manor

The Cottage at Carne Manor is a small building from the early 17th century, with an uncertain original purpose, possibly a tower. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and features a rag slate roof with hipped ends. The cottage has a rear lateral stone rubble stack topped with a moulded granite cap.

The layout consists of a one-room plan on both the ground and first floors, heated by the rear lateral stack. Due to the slope of the land, the entrance is at a higher level than the ground floor room. The entrance, located on the front left, is through a round turret that serves as a two-storey porch. This turret contains steps leading down to the ground floor room and a flight of winder steps leading up to the first floor room. It is possible that this round turret is a truncated stair turret, hinting at the building's potential origin as a tower.

The exterior features two storeys and an asymmetrical front elevation with the porch/stair turret on the left. The entrance has a dressed granite rounded arch, moulded to form an open segmental pediment, with dressed granite chamfered jambs. There is a small one-light window with a chamfered segmental granite arch that lights the stair, and a two-light mullion window on the first floor. The ground floor has a three-light granite mullion window, while the first floor features a two-light granite mullion window forming a half dormer with a shallow raking roof. Similar windows are present on the right-hand side elevation. The rear and left side of the cottage have 20th-century stone rubble garages.

Inside, there is a granite ashlar winder stair within the porch leading to the first floor room, as well as a short flight of steps down to the ground floor room, which is heated by a large fireplace with a chamfered granite lintel and jambs. The floor joists were replaced in the 19th century. The first floor has a blocked fireplace and a bolted A-frame roof structure with lapped collars.