What is recorded here

Castle Moffat, Cottage No. 3 and 4 stood as farm labourers cottages in East Lothian by 1862, built for the hands that kept the land alive. They may have been small, cold and crowded, yet they gave young strength somewhere honest to spend. The stones no longer answer to that life, but the shape of the work remains in the name and the local memory.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Moffat, Cottage No. 3 and 4 as Farm Labourers Cottage(s) (mid 19th Century) (1862). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Built as farm labourers' cottages in the mid-19th century (c. 1862), Castle Moffat, Cottage No. 3 and 4 are listed in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment. They are remembered as examples of rural worker housing associated with the broader estate and agricultural systems of the period.

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