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High on the hill slope SE of the village of Carnkie is the engine house and separate stack of Wheal Bassett Stamps.
The house was erected in 1868 and is unusual in that it contained two separate 30-inch rotative engines built side by side. The engine initially drove 48 heads of stamps, but by 1895 this number had increased to 96 heads - arranged in a line either side of the house.

The concrete work on the engine house and in front of it dates from 1938 when ore dressing equipment was installed to reprocess the waste burrows nearby. The house was used as an ore bin and in front Californian stamps stood where previously the engine's crankshafts and flywheels had been.