What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 21 North Hermitage Street, stands as a small cottage in the Scottish Borders, its exact position marked to the nearest metre though its age remains unknown. The distinction between knowing where a building sits and understanding when it stood matters, for a point on a map does not reveal the hands that built it or the lives it held. It may have sheltered traders, travellers or families whose names never reached a record, yet the stone still leans into the street and the room still waits for breath.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 21 North Hermitage Street 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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