Aghyaran Methodist Church, Church Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7XZ

Aghyaran Methodist Church is a detached, double-height Methodist church built around 1870, located on the east side of Church Road, Castlederg. The building is rectangular in plan with a single cell and a chancel to the north. A single-storey entrance porch and boiler-house are positioned to the left of the south elevation, while a single-storey outbuilding to the east is connected to the nave by a single-storey flat-roofed extension.

The roofs are pitched natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles and flat stone verges supported on cavetto-moulded kneelers. Rainwater goods are of box-profile cast iron. The walls are constructed of squared-and-snecked rubble with stugged-finish quoins over a projecting plinth.

Windows throughout contain lattice glazing and margin lights set within chamfered pointed-arched-headed openings, with stugged-finish stepped surrounds and splayed flush cills, except where otherwise noted.

The principal elevation faces east and is abutted centrally by the single-storey entrance porch, which is pitched natural slate roofed and detailed to match the nave. The exposed section contains three windows at the centre. The east gable contains a pointed-arched-headed opening with a timber-sheeted door featuring original ironmongery including decorative strap-hinges. The left cheek contains a single diminished window; the right cheek is abutted by the single-storey boiler-house, which is detailed as the nave with a parapet concealing a flat roof. A square-plan two-stage chimney rises from the nave east wall at the rear of the boiler-house. The boiler-house east elevation contains a single window, and its north elevation contains a square-headed timber-sheeted door.

The south gable contains paired windows at the centre and a modern timber wall-plaque to the right. The west elevation contains three windows at the centre.

The north gable is abutted by a single-storey extension with a flat roof. The exposed section contains three centrally-located pointed-arched-headed window openings, the central one being taller, each containing leaded stained glass with margin lights. The extension has a felted flat roof and smooth rendered walling. Its east elevation contains a metal casement window, the west elevation contains three metal casement windows, and the north elevation contains a timber-sheeted door to the left, abutted to the right by an earlier single-storey outbuilding with a pitched natural slate roof and roughcast-rendered walls.

The principal east elevation contains a central timber door with a metal casement window to the right, and further windows to the north and west elevations. The north outbuilding has a slightly lower ground level than the church or extension; the entrances to both are separated by a roughcast-rendered wall with saddleback coping.

The church is set within a rural landscape and bounded to Church Road at the south by an alcoved entrance comprising roughcast-rendered walls and square-plan piers with pyramidal coping supporting original wrought-iron gates. It is bounded to the north and west by hedging and to the east by the River Derg and Aghyaran Bridge at the south-east corner.