Women'S Institute Hall Including Forecourt Area Wall, Gate Piers And Gate

A Methodist chapel, later used as a Women's Institute hall, dating to approximately 1830. It is constructed of slate rubble with a slate-hung west front, and has a rag slate hipped roof with red clay ridge tiles. The building is rectangular in plan, with the entrance facing west and a rostrum at the east end of the auditorium, which has no gallery. There was a slight front extension at some point, though it appears to be part of the original building phase. The west front features two tall, narrow pointed-arch windows with slate sills, each containing 8-pane fixed windows, with coloured glass in the top panes. A central, tall, narrow pointed-arch doorway has deeply recessed plank double doors and a blind tympanum above. Windows are also present on the north and south elevations towards the east end; the north window is an early 19th-century 24-pane sash within a segmental red brick arch, and the south window is a fixed 12-pane window with a wooden lintel, both with slate cills. The east elevation is blind. Internally, the auditorium has a flat plastered ceiling with a simple moulded frieze of small trefoils. The original benches have been removed, but the back of the rostrum at the east end remains, featuring pointed arch panels. A later match-board dado is also present. A memorial to Paul Strongman, who died in 1897, is located on the north wall. A slate rubble wall, with pitched slate capping, encloses a forecourt area. The forecourt has a splayed front with small granite monolith gate piers at the centre, with pyramidal tops and a simple late 19th-century wrought-iron gate, featuring looped shafts over the top rail. The gate leads to a small flight of slate steps up to the west door of the chapel. A tablet found in the vestry of St Ervan Methodist Chapel, inscribed "Methodist Chapel 1830," likely originated from this chapel.