Midlothian, £1.8 million
ew architectural styles get the pulse racing quite like Scots Baronial and, in Borthwick Hall, I can feel my blood quickening as I type. Here we have a magnificent Grade C-listed mansion designed by John Henderson, completed in 1852, offering 10 bedrooms and 12 acres, all within 20 miles of the capital Edinburgh. Inside the 19th-century exterior, adorned as it is by bartizan towers and turrets,