What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 6 South Hermitage Street stood as a public house in the Scottish Borders, its exact position marked to the nearest metre though no date remains attached to its walls. Inside, lantern light may have shaken beer glasses while voices clashed over border trade or weather, turning an ordinary room into a temporary shelter from darkness. The building still belongs to memory even when absence swallows every name that filled it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 6 South Hermitage Street as Public 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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