Hugus Methodist Church And Walling Surrounding Adjoining Courtyard To South Side

This is a Methodist church with an attached manse and a surrounding boundary wall, dating to 1830 with later fittings from the late 19th century. The church is constructed of painted killas rubble, with slate sills, granite lintels, and shallow brick arches, topped with a scantle slate roof partly replaced with corrugated asbestos. A brick chimney rises from the rear wall of the manse. The building comprises a chapel at the right (west) end and, to the left (west) end, a later manse built above a schoolroom.

The chapel has a doorway in the eastern wall, beneath a west gallery; a further gallery is at the opposite (west) end. The manse entrance, on the first floor at the rear left, is accessed by a rubble-sided ramp. The south front is regular, with 12-pane horned sash windows on the manse (spanning ground and first floors) and a two-window chapel to the right, featuring early 20th-century wooden windows in round-headed openings. A brick porch with corner acroteria and a Gothic-style window is centrally positioned in the right-hand (east) end wall, while a 20th-century ledged door is on the far left.

Inside, the chapel has late 19th-century pine fittings. Part of the east gallery is original, supported by two wooden Doric columns, while the west gallery is a later extension of the rostrum area into the manse's first floor. The rostrum features a canted pulpit with flanking staircases boasting splat balusters and turned newel posts. A round cast iron stove is situated on the north side, and the original roof structure remains.

The boundary wall is constructed of heavily mortared killas rubble, with a gateway in the middle of the west wall, framed by rounded-headed dressed granite piers. A wooden gate with chamfered stiles, rails and cross bracing, with pointed dowelling bars (double-spaced on the lower half), completes the enclosure. The church represents a simple and good example of a Methodist chapel with a somewhat later manse.