St John's Rectory, Sharplaw Road, Jedburgh

St John's Rectory, built around 1835, is a single-storey Grecian villa with a raised basement, situated on a site that slopes down to the east. The front (south elevation) features five bays and is accessed by five ashlar steps with cast-iron railings leading to a central Doric doorpiece. The polished ashlar facing and dressings include moulded architraves framing panelled aprons that extend to a band course above the stugged ashlar basement, which has droved ashlar dressings. The moulded eaves are topped with a solid coped ashlar parapet. The central deep-set panelled door has a four-pane rectangular fanlight and is flanked by fluted Doric columns that support an advanced pediment, with windows on either side. The outer bays are slightly advanced, and there are two bays to the east with plain basement windows.

The east elevation is comprised of one and two-storey sections on a full raised basement, featuring a four-bay side elevation with an entrance to a basement flat. It has stugged ashlar walls and polished ashlar band courses above the basement and principal floors, with regular fenestration and cills. A modern door at the centre has a three-pane rectangular fanlight, with a pair of two-storey bays to the left that have a wallhead stack between them. To the right, there are two three-storey bays flanking three gablehead octagonal ashlar corniced stacks. A modern two-bay garage is located nearby to the northeast.

The west elevation is constructed of rubble and consists of single and two-storey sections. The blank single-storey side wall faces the entrance front and has two central wallhead stacks. There is a return wall to the north with a lean-to porch, and a two-storey two-bay elevation set back at the rear features a plain gablehead stack. The north elevation looks into a wooded bank.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a piended roof at the front, and a gable roof at the rear with slate hanging on the south wall, grey slates, and ashlar coped skews. Inside, the main feature is a rectangular central hall that is top-lit from a plaster saucer dome. The drawing and dining rooms, which have simple plaster cornices, flank the vestibule at the front.

The gates and boundary wall consist of square droved ashlar gatepiers topped with smooth ashlar coping stones leading to a lane to the southwest, with solid wooden board gates. The boundary wall is made of rubble and has semi-circular coping stones.