What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 6 North Hermitage Street stands as a house in the Scottish Borders, its walls holding no date but keeping the shape of domestic life. The exact position is known to the nearest metre, yet the years remain unassigned. It may have sheltered lovers, arguers, or children learning the dark. The absence of a date does not empty the room; it withholds the name of the hands that shaped it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 6 North Hermitage Street as House (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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