What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 23 North Hermitage Street is a cottage in the Scottish Borders, still unassigned to any period despite standing firm on the landscape. It may have sheltered lovers, traders or hermits, though no name survives to mark the chamber. The walls likely absorbed breath, argument and song before forgetting them.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 23 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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