The large scale 1:2500 Ordnance Survey mapping of 1870 shows most of the buildings that today comprise Karran's Croft.  Today these buildings form a core part of the village folk museum, interpreted as a byre, a former stable and barn, and as a now-roofless cartshed.  The byre previously served as a dwelling, which itself was a replacement for an earlier cottage which more recently served as the cartshed: both former dwellings preserve evidence for hearths demonstrating their original domestice purpose.  Other, smaller structures are likely once to have served as a pigsty and hen-house.


To the north and east of the buildings lies the farmyard and stack-yard (haggart). 


The grid reference is centred on the yard.