Become lord of a ruin, for a price

Fed up with being just Mr or Mrs Average? Keen to join the ranks of the privileged few? Happy to spend more than £170,000 on what looks like little more than a dilapidated old barnyard? If the answers are yes, yes and yes, then read on.

The Duke of Roxburghe has put a 500-year-old aristocratic title on the market. For offers of more than £50,000 a couple can escape obscurity and become the Baron and Baroness of Primside. Although not a peerage, the title could be used on credit cards and passports.



Should the fancy take them, interested parties with upwards of £170,000 to spend, could also purchase the remnants of a traditional single-storey stone property on the duke's estate.

The building, Foumartdean, near Kelso, a small market town in the Scottish Borders, has planning consent to be converted into a residential property.

The 'house' and title are available separately thanks to legislation passed in November 2004.