Hoghton Methodist Chapel

Hoghton Methodist Chapel is a non-conformist chapel that also features an attached boundary wall, gatepiers, and gates. It was originally built in 1794, with early 19th-century extensions and alterations, and further modifications made in 1887-1888. The chapel is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, has a coped east gable, and is covered with a Welsh slate roof. The building has an L-plan shape due to the addition at the rear of the main frontage.

The front elevation is two storeys high and consists of five bays. It has an off-centre doorway with a chamfered surround and a semi-circular arched head, featuring a blind tympanum inscribed with "WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED 1794." The doorway has asymmetrically divided double doors, one with six panels and the other with three. Flanking the doorway are tall windows with stone surrounds, glazing bars, and margin lights, with a third window of similar design at the left-hand end bay. Above these, there are five evenly spaced two-light windows, with the central window featuring a stone mullion.

The rear elevation includes a two-storey, two-bay addition to the west part of the chapel, built of rubble stone, with some walls now rendered.

Inside, there is an early gallery on the east wall with a panelled front, supported by two turned timber columns. The north wall has been altered to allow for an extension and the erection of a singers' gallery, which is supported by a single stone column and retains early 19th-century box pews. The main body of the chapel features late 19th-century pews with dwarf doors. At the west end, there is a semi-octagonal late 18th-century pulpit that was brought from a chapel in Blackburn.

The attached boundary wall is approximately one metre high, topped with ridged stone copings, and features rounded stone gate piers and ornamental railed gates facing the chapel entrance.

Historically, the chapel was built in 1794 and underwent extensions and remodelling in the early 19th century when the galleries were added. The eastward extension replicated the original detailing of the facade and incorporated elements from the original building.