What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 8 South Hermitage Street stands as a cottage in the Scottish Borders, its exact position known to the nearest metre though its age remains unrecorded. The precision of its location contrasts with the gap in its history, inviting wonder about the hands that built it and the lives that filled its rooms. It is a small anchor in time, certain in place but silent about when it first stood.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 8 South Hermitage Street as 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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