'As the express train hurtles north from Berwick-upon-Tweed towards Edinburgh, many passengers must have glimpsed the imposing sulhouette of Ayton Castle on its wooded ridge above the River Eye and sighed "Scotland at last"'. So wrote the architecture critic Michael Hall in Country Life in 1993 when telling the tale of Ayton Castle. Three decades on, its visual impact is just as great; this time, though, it appears in Country Life not as a 'masterpiece of the baronial revival' (as Hall called it), but as a place you can call home. It's for sale with GSC Grays and Knight Frank at £3.25 million . Image 1 of 4

(Image credit: Knight Frank)

(Image credit: Knight Frank)

(Image credit: Knight Frank)

(Image credit: Knight Frank)

The house, six miles north of Berwick, was designed by J

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