What is recorded here

Newcastleton, 22 South Hermitage Street is a cottage in the Scottish Borders, recorded without a date but marked on the official map to the nearest metre. It may have sheltered lovers, farmers or fugitives, though no name survives to confirm it. The exact point is known while the story remains hidden, a small gap between fact and imagination.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newcastleton, 22 South 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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