What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 17 North Hermitage Square is a small cottage in the Scottish Borders, recorded without a date but marked on the official map to within one metre. It may have housed a keeper, a trader or a family who knew every stone by heart, though no name survives in the fact given. The precision of its position makes the absence of a date feel like a withheld breath rather than a mistake.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 17 North Hermitage Square 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.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.