The Old Rectory (former All Saints Episcopal Church rectory), Challoch, Newton Stewart

The Old Rectory, originally the rectory for All Saints Episcopal Church in Challoch, Newton Stewart, was built in 1874. It is a simple two-story gabled building with a two-story wing at the rear and lower, single-story outbuildings set at right angles, forming a service court. A brick and corrugated iron lean-to shed, dating from approximately 1900 to 1920 and located on the southwest side of the service court, is excluded from the listing.

The building is constructed of squared and snecked whinstone with buff sandstone ashlar dressings. There is a base course, chamfered reveals, stone mullions, and segmental lintels above the first-floor windows. Stone finials adorn the roof. The main front elevation has three bays, with a centrally located segmentally arched doorway flanked by capitalled nook-shafts. A plate glass fanlight is above the two-leaf door, and there are bipartite windows at ground level to the left and in the advanced gabled bay to the right, both at ground and first floor levels. Gabled dormerheads break the eaves at the centre and to the left of the first-floor windows, featuring a trefoil motif at their apex. The side elevations each have two bays, with slightly advanced gabled bays; a canted window is at ground level on the advanced bay of the south elevation. The windows now have predominantly modern glazing. The roof is grey slated, with ashlar coped skews and corniced ashlar stacks.

The interior, viewed in 2015, features decorative mantelpieces and cornicing with floral, leaf, and grape motifs, primarily in the principal rooms. A marble mantelpiece is in the drawing room. There is a dentilled cornice in the entrance hall, and plain cornices in other ground-floor rooms. The first-floor ceilings are coombed and have plain cornicing. Most fireplace openings are intact, although some are now boarded up. The original window shutters are largely intact. Panelled doors are in place, along with a timber dog-leg principal stair with a decorative twisted barley timber balustrade and timber handrail. A simpler timber dog-leg stair in the rear hall serves a two-room flat within the service wing.

The boundary walls are constructed of coursed whinstone rubble with gablet coping. Ashlar gatepiers have gablet caps featuring trefoil motifs.