Private Chapel At Hough Hole House

The Private Chapel at Hough Hole House is a building dating from 1844, originally used as a Methodist and then a Swedenborgian chapel, constructed by James Mellor junior. It is made of coursed, squared, buff sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone flagged roof with one stone chimney. The chapel consists of three bays on the upper storey, which is accessed by an external stone spiral staircase with a simple iron handrail. The entrance has a three-centred headed doorcase, flanked by rectangular windows that retain their original glazing bars. Above the doorcase is an inscribed plaque that reads, "With all thy getting get understanding 1844." A central weathervane sits atop a tapered stone plinth. Inside, there is a cast-iron fireplace in one corner and a wooden cupboard in another corner, which contains a lead-lined slit for a telescope, although the telescope is now missing.