What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 12a Douglas Square served as a post office through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, binding the scattered Borders into a wider conversation. Imagine letters arriving there for farms and valleys, delaying or delivering fates depending on the patience of the person at the desk. The house still stands beside that memory, preserving the moment when distance first learned to bend.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 12a Douglas Square as House (period Unassigned), Post Office (19th Century) - (20th Century). 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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