What is recorded here

Dirleton, Main Road, 4 Castle Mains Cottages stands as an early 19th Century cottage in East Lothian, Scotland. Built when local life still moved at the pace of seasons and footpaths, it likely sheltered families who worked the land or tended animals before cars crowded Main Road. The small size suggests practicality rather than pride, with rooms small enough that heat, light and noise belonged to everyone inside. It may have been busy, noisy and alive, or quiet and forgotten, but it still belongs to the town because it survived the change around it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dirleton, Main Road, 4 Castle Mains Cottages as Cottage (early 19th Century). 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.

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