What is recorded here

Newcastleton stands at 27 South Hermitage Street in the Scottish Borders, a house whose rooms may still hold the shape of hands that built them. The exact address pins it to nearest one metre, yet no date or name has emerged to explain who lived inside or why the walls remain. It is the kind of place that resists being known, waiting for a person brave enough to imagine the life it swallowed.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 27 South 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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