Bethel Hen Methodist Chapel, chapel house and schoolroom

This is a large early 20th-century chapel complex comprising a chapel, chapel house, and schoolroom set alongside the road within railed and walled grounds. The buildings are constructed of rendered rubble masonry with freestone dressings, quoins to the angles, and dressed architraves with keystones. The roofs are of slate with red clay ridge tiles, axial vents, and stone gable parapet walling with finials to the facing elevations.

The chapel is an impressive structure with mild Art Nouveau character suggested by flowing lines combined with mainly Perpendicular Gothic detail. It is rectangular in plan with entrances in side vestibules. The right (north-east) vestibule is surmounted by an octagonal dressed stone belltower and spire. The principal elevation faces the road to the south-east and features a large window of four ogee-headed lights with panel tracery set in an elliptically headed frame with hoodmould extending outward to flanking stepped buttresses. The hoodmould extends upwards to a name plaque set in the gable apex, also with hoodmould continuing to a shaped gable finial. The flanking vestibules have shallow arched entrances with four round-headed lights over, set into rectangular frames with hoodmoulds. Each vestibule has semi-octagonal ends with ogee-headed lights in rectangular frames. Above the right (north-west) vestibule rises the octagonal belltower in three stages: the lowest forms the porch entrance, the middle stage has narrow ventilation slits on each side, and the bell stage above features round-headed louvred openings. The bell stage has a raking base and moulded cornice to the parapet walling, surmounted by an octagonal spire.

The chapel house abuts the right (north-west) end of the chapel and forms the linking block between it and the schoolroom at the far right (north-west) end of the range. It has been modernised with new windows and doors. The schoolroom has a central gabled entrance porch with a doorway similarly detailed to those of the chapel, flanked by tall shallow pointed-arched windows and a tripartite blank panel in the gable apex.

The interior of the chapel is accessed through side vestibules with double doors beyond. The fittings are of pitch pine, with ranks of raking pews lining the walls and a central bank with staggered divider. The set fawr (communion table) is rectangular with side entrances raised by two steps. The facing panels are pointed arches set as an arcade with shaped pillars; the angles have square newel posts with deep pointed-arched recesses. The pulpit is rectangular, three bays wide with an advanced central bay and angled corners, with side entrances raised by four steps and similarly detailed to the set fawr with deeply recessed panels. The walls are plastered with the lower half clad in tongue and grooved panelling, raised behind the pulpit with raking sides. A plastered pointed-arched recess with hoodmould and chamfered sides contains a pointed-arched panel with moulding, forming a window of three ogee-headed lights with Perpendicular tracery. Flanking the set fawr are shallow pointed-arched windows of three lights; the windows along the side wall are also of three lights but set in rectangular frames. All windows feature Art Nouveau style floriate designs. The window at the entrance end of the chapel is a stained glass window depicting biblical scenes, commemorating Margaret Owen (died 1905). The chapel roof spans four bays with one bay between the vestibules, beyond a round arch with chamfered angles. The bays have recessed panels with moulded dividers articulated by braced beams descending to wall posts on shaped corbels. Each bay has a diagonally set central pierced wooden ventilation grille. The chapel doors have panelled pediments with shaped moulding to pointed heads. At the north end of the side wall is a doorway leading to a corridor running through the chapel house and connecting to the schoolroom.

The schoolroom interior has a narrow vestibule with tongue and grooved panelled walls and plastered walls, the lower half clad in tongue and grooved panelling. The wall opposite the entrance has raised panelling and a long bench along it. The roof spans four bays with canted sides and recessed panels with dividers; each bay has a central pierced floriate ventilation grille. Windows flanking the entrance have shallow pointed-arched heads; side windows are rectangular casement windows of two lights with leaded lights above, some with coloured glass.