What is recorded here
Loudoun Castle, the Cottage stands in East Ayrshire, Scotland, recorded as an estate cottage with no assigned period. The exact position is known to the nearest metre, yet the building itself resists easy dating. It may have served household staff, stored tools, or given shelter during storms, but no fact confirms which. The cottage still belongs to the castle estate, waiting for someone to remember what it did.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Loudoun Castle, the Cottage as Estate Cottage (period Unassigned). 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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