Former Plymouth Brethren Chapel And Attached Manse

The former Plymouth Brethren Chapel and attached Manse, now disused, dates back to 1835 with later alterations. The building is constructed of roughly coursed slate-stone rubble, mainly covered in cement render, with a concrete pantile roof for the chapel and slates for the manse. It has a rectangular plan with the manse attached to the north end.

The south gable end, which faces the road, features a large round-headed three-light mullioned and transomed multi-paned window set in a granite surround at the center, flanked by narrow blind round-headed windows. Above the blind windows are blank rectangular raised granite panels, with a larger panel inscribed "JEHOVAH JIRAH" above the center window. There is a shallow central flat-roofed porch with a datestone reading "MDCCCXXXV" on a plain entablature, which has flush-panelled double doors. Each return has two similar but taller windows with segmental heads, with the right return showing exposed wedged voussoirs.

The manse features a central six-panel door accessed by a bridge, with segmental-headed casement windows on both floors to the left and right. The semi-basement has two openings on either side of the bridge, all with segmental-headed windows except for the six-panel door on the inner left, which also has a segmental head. There is an integral lateral stack on each side, with an infilled window on the left return and a brick lean-to attached to the right.

Inside the chapel, there is a queen-post roof spanning six bays. A panelled gallery at the south end is supported by two Tuscan wooden columns and accessed by a staircase with turned newels, carved open string, and a single baluster for each tread. The gallery contains 19th-century benches. The pulpit at the north end features blind Gothic tracery panels, and there is a baptism pool in front, below the floorboards, with concrete steps leading down. Four-panel doors on either side of the pulpit lead to the semi-basement of the manse, which includes two fireplaces with pilastered wood surrounds and cupboards on either side, as well as an earth closet in the lean-to. The chapel is reported to have been in use until the 1970s.