Scottish independence: what will happen to house prices? On the exclusive Castle Terrace in Berwick sits a Twenties house, with extensive gardens, four bedrooms and views across the River Tweed towards the Cheviot Hills. The property is within easy distance of the town centre and train station. Rettie & Co (01289 305158; rettie.co.uk) is asking £500,000. And it you think that's good value, consider Harcourt House. Built of stone, this is a double-fronted Georgian house with fanlight and sash windows. A cantilevered staircase sweeps up to the four bedrooms. Can the asking price really only be £350,000? The Old Vicarage, which Smiths Gore is offering on Castle Terrace at £895,000, has an acre of garden. From it are views of some of the most glorious border countryside that you could shake a walking stick at. It has the feeling of a country house, but the shops of Berwick - not, it has to be said, a peerless collection - are on the doorstep. The same agent is seeking £695,000 for Castle Hills House, up above the Tweed: it should appeal to someone with an architectural imagination, because it's a mock castle from the 1820s, the two towers joined by a frilly ironwork Regency veranda. Originally a dower house, it has a guest suite which could provide an income as a holiday let. By comparison, the four-bedroom Georgian house in a quiet corner of Berwick town centre, for which Rettie is seeking £299,500, looks verging on the expensive, until you consider that it is Grade II listed. How many houses in Fulham, at five times the price, can say that? If you yearn for the country, Fine and Country (01620 532420) is offering a Grade II five-bedroom house at Whittingham, near Alnwick. The former pub has no garden, but there are views across the Cheviots. Cheswick House, a country house built around a central tower in what Pevsner describes as "jolly High Victorian Gothic," is a different order of property altogether, having its own woods, gate lodge, coach house and cottages. At under £2 million with Sale and Partners (01668 281611), it might attract the eye of a Scottish entrepreneur, needing to position himself on the southern side of the Tweed. Clive Aslet is editor at large of "Country Life"