Carr Head Hall

Carr Head Hall is a mansion, likely built in the mid-18th century and extended later in the 18th century, with refurbishment in 1851 and minor alterations in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a hipped slate roof and some ashlar detailing. It is two storeys high.

The original part appears to be the south front, now the garden front, which features five bays with a plinth, plat band, cornice, and rusticated quoins. The tall windows have architraves and retain their original sash windows with all glazing bars. The central doorway has a Doric doorcase with pilasters, a pediment, and rosettes between triglyphs. The east front also has five bays, similar detailing, but with plain stone window surrounds; the central three bays are canted out. The north front, likely from the early 20th century, has blocked window surrounds and a Doric porch, distyle in antis.

The interior reveals three distinct periods of design. The later 18th century likely influenced the former hall, with doors in the style of Adam, and the central staircase, which has a small, domed skylight decorated with husks. The cantilevered stone stair features an ornamental iron balustrade. The remaining ground floor rooms display simple classical decoration, probably from 1851. On the first floor, the three rooms facing south retain decoration from the original construction. The central lobby has a small but richly decorated plaster ceiling, in the style of the 1730s, with an Ionic modillion cornice. The ceiling features an eagle in a central roundel and a cove decorated with Roman busts, cherubs, trumpets, and palm leaves. The south-east bedroom has a cornice supported by two Corinthian pilasters either side of the chimneypiece, which has a scrolled and eared overmantel with an overhanging garland. The south-west bedroom has a similar arrangement, but with Doric detail, featuring bucrania in the frieze, a shouldered overmantel, flanked by husks, and surmounted by a shell containing another ox skull.

Carr Head Hall preserves elements of a significant mid-18th century country house.