Ladock House

Ladock House is a rectory, now a private house, built in 1832 by the Reverend Henry Ware. It is constructed of stucco over rubble with granite dressings, a slate roof, and brick chimneys.

The building follows a U-shaped plan in the classical style with two storeys. The south front (originally the garden front) contains four windows and is the primary elevation. A granite plinth with round ventilation holes runs beneath the windows. The ground floor features semi-circular arched window recesses with a granite string at impost level. The first floor is marked by a granite string at sill level, broken forward with aprons. All windows have raised plain architraves and sashes with glazing bars. The eaves are wide and projecting, supported by paired brackets, and the roof is a hipped scantle slate roof.

The east entrance front mirrors the south front for one bay but includes blind windows. A granite Tuscan porch, now glazed, features paired brackets in the cornice and is attached to a two-storey curved stair projection with a sash window above. To the right stands a three-storey service wing with three windows; the ground and first floors have 16-paned sashes while the second floor has 12-paned sashes, all in plain surrounds. The two-storey west front has a curved bay to the left and a Victorian bay window on the ground floor to the right. Granite quoins, rusticated and formed as pilasters, articulate the corners.

The interior retains most early 19th-century detail, including a cantilevered stone staircase with iron balusters by Harvey. The vestibule features a stone floor, and the building preserves original doors, architraves, shutters, plaster cornices, and plaster vaults over the inner vestibule on two floors. The church purchased the house on the death of Reverend Ware in 1842, aged 36, and it was extended in 1850 by Canon Wise, the then Rector.