What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 44 South Hermitage Street stands as a cottage in the Scottish Borders, its exact position known to the nearest metre though its age remains unassigned. The stone walls may have sheltered lovers, farmers or fugitives, their breath still faint in the timber. Hermitage Street suggests a quiet devotion, perhaps a personal hermitage rather than a public monastery. The cottage waits without warning, holding the kind of privacy that belongs to living people.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 44 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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