What is recorded here
Newcastleton, 30 South Hermitage Square is a cottage in the Scottish Borders, recorded without a date but marked on the official map to the nearest metre. It may have housed a keeper, a weaver, or a solitary dreamer, though no name survives to confirm the life inside. The walls likely absorbed ordinary breath and unusual silence, waiting for someone brave enough to imagine what they heard.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 30 South 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.
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