A survey of 1522 refers to a 'store house' at Carrycoats, and a list of Border holds in 1541 refers to the bastle there as being in good repair. (1)

No further siting evidence, but Carrycoats Hall (NY 92427996), as the only substantial feature retaining the name, possibly occupies the site. The present house is largely 19th century, and no identifiable remains of a bastle are incorporated. (2)

Carrycoats Bastle. Part of suppressed monastery of Newminster, it may have stood on or near the site of the present hall. (3)

Carrycoats Hall stands in a remote situation on the south side of the small valley of the Carry Burn. The house has a twin-gabled 'Tudor' front characteristic of the 1840s or 1850s, but the gables are those of wings added on to an earlier east-west range that is probably a century earlier. Behind this, and overlapping its west end, is a shorter parallel block with masonry - rough rubble walling and large roughly shaped quoins - of bastle character. It measures 7.7m by 6m externally with walls around 0.9m thick; most of its features appear to be later insertions. To the west of this block is a 19th century extension, and to the east a late 18th or 19th century outshut, possibly replacing a further section of the earlier building, as the rear wall of the main east-west range remains relatively thick throughout its full length. (4)

Carrycoats Hall. Grade II listed building. House, incorporating a 16th or 17th century bastle. The rubble-built bastle was extended in ashlar in the early 18th century and a 3 bay front was added in the 1830s. A bastle was recorded at Carrycoats in 1541. Listed Grade II. (5)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (6a-b)