{"id":374581,"date":"2025-08-26T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374581\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:31:10","slug":"17-bedroom-historic-scottish-castle-on-market-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374581\/","title":{"rendered":"17-bedroom historic Scottish castle on market for\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A HISTORIC 17-bedroom castle in the Scottish Borders has gone on the market for more than \u00a33 million.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n Ayton Castle, nestled in the countryside near Berwick-upon-Tweed, is complete with stables, a private chapel, servant’s quarters and even a private railway.\n<\/p>\n

\n Widely regarded as one of Scotland’s finest baronial-style buildings, the castle is one of only two baronial structures by early 19th-century\u00a0architect James Gillespie Graham.\n<\/p>\n

\n Front view of Ayton Castle\u00a0(Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) Entrance hallway (Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) (Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) The castle was built around a medieval tower house and is set within more than 160 acres of land.\n<\/p>\n

\n It has three state rooms, which feature 17th-century Scottish-style plasterwork. At the southern end of the castle lies the family wing, with service areas and a courtyard to the north.\n<\/p>\n

\n One of the three state rooms (Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) The main dining room (Image: ITAGO MEDIA) The castle also comes with its very own library (Image: ITAGO MEDIA) Beyond the formal rooms is a private chapel with a kitchenette and dining space.\n<\/p>\n

\n The main kitchen features a butler’s pantry, located near the dining room and the rear service entrance.\n<\/p>\n

\n The castle features a turnpike staircase which leads from the gallery to the first floor, with additional stairs to upper levels.\n<\/p>\n

\n The first floor offers 12 bedrooms and six bathrooms, with four more bedrooms and two bathrooms on the second floor.\n<\/p>\n

\n One of the bedrooms (Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) Another bedroom\u00a0 (Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) On the lower ground and basement levels of the castle there is secondary accommodation, including a former servants’ hall, storerooms and domestic quarters around the service courtyard.\n<\/p>\n

\n The grounds of the castle also feature a stable block, which the current owners have been using to run a livery business<\/a>. There is stabling for approximately nine horses, various loose boxes, several stores, a staff room, a tack room, workshop and a double garage.\n<\/p>\n

\n There is also an all-weather manege (an outdoor horse riding area), which is used to train horses in riding and dressage skills, with a further four loose boxes behind a barn which store hay and straw.\n<\/p>\n

\n A view of the stables (Image: ITAGO MEDIA) Since 2014, the current owners have undertaken significant improvements to the castle, including partial re-wiring, re-plumbing and the redecoration of several of the principal rooms.\n<\/p>\n

\n They have also created a formal garden to the southern part of the property and installed a 10 1\/4-inch gauge 600m railway which winds through part of the grounds.\n<\/p>\n

\n The formal gardens (Image: ITAGO MEDIA) The railway comes with its own platform, ticket office, engine and rolling stock shed and a joiner’s shop. It has previously been used as a wedding destination.\n<\/p>\n

\n The railway\u00a0(Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) (Image: ITAGO MEDIA LTD) The historic property lies two miles from the Berwickshire coast and near the village of Ayton, which has a shop, a primary school and pub.\n<\/p>\n

\n Berwick-upon-Tweed is just seven miles away from the castle, offering rail links to Edinburgh<\/a> and London, with the A1 also nearby.\n<\/p>\n

\n Ayton Castle is on the market through estate agents GSC Grays, with a guide price of offers over \u00a33.25m.\n<\/p>\n

\n James Denne, property consultant at GSC Grays, said: \u201cThis is an iconic Scottish Castle with land, extensive secondary accommodation and limitless potential.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cAyton Castle is set in 160.56 acres of wonderful Scottish Borders<\/a> country and is a fabulous example of baronial-style architecture and features a beehive type 16th century dovecot among garden terraces, parkland and attractive woodland, which together make an outstanding scenic contribution to the local landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A HISTORIC 17-bedroom castle in the Scottish Borders has gone on the market for more than \u00a33 million.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[1500,748,4044,5686,4884,5681,12,5683,5682,5684,712,5685,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-374581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-daily-news","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-inkl","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-app","16":"tag-news-headlines","17":"tag-news-today","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-today-news","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115094374487995001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}