Milton Street Methodist Church Hall

Milton Street Methodist Church Hall, originally a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, was built between 1862 and 1865 and later altered in the 20th century by William Peachey. The building features white firebricks from Pease West Brickworks in Crook on the street fronts, with common brick at the rear and ashlar dressings. It has a grey-purple slate roof and is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The plan has the ritual east at the north. The exterior consists of a continuous nave and chancel of five bays. The elevation facing Milton Street includes a triple-gabled shallow porch with steps leading up to renewed doors at the center, flanked by glazed side lights in an arcade supported by 'Derbyshire marble' shafts with large stiff-leaf capitals and moulded stone arches, the central arch being the highest, all beneath stone-coped gables. The gable peaks feature inscriptions reading 'WESLEY 1865 CHAPEL'. There are lancet stair lights on the sides and triple lancets above that rise into a steeply pitched gable, with paired lights at the gable peak. Clasping brick buttresses, which reduce through stone coping, lead to octagonal stone spirelets.

The elevation facing Emerald Street has a shallow vestry porch on the left with a pent roof, and four lancets in bays defined by buttresses, with the right lancet being shorter and having a square-headed light below. The roof is steeply pitched. The interior has not been inspected. The foundation stone was laid by Henry Pease, MP for South Durham. This building is part of the integral design of the Milton Street Methodist Church and is included for its group value.