No 64 Manod Road

No. 64 Manod Road is a former chapel, originally built as the Bethesda Methodist Chapel in 1819. It was known as St. Martin's Hall earlier this century when it served as a church hall, with a seating capacity for 750 people. The adjacent No. 64 was the former minister's house.

The chapel is a rectangular structure made of rubble with a shallow-pitched slate roof that has been renewed. It features a half-hipped gable at the front. The facade is symmetrical, consisting of two stories and three bays, with plain two-story rubble pilasters on the sides and separating the bays. The central entrance is arched and has a projecting keystone, with modern part-glazed doors. Tall, similarly arched flanking windows have fan glazing in the upper segments and plain late 19th-century glazing below, with projecting slate cills. The upper floor has small-paned arched windows with fan glazing, and the cills match those below. A plain slate string-course runs above, terminating the pilasters. The rear has a half-hipped roof and additional small-pane flat-arched windows arranged over four levels: two outer, two inner, two outer, and a central window at the apex.

Inside, there is a simple gallery on the roadside supported by plain cast-iron columns, accessed by a later 19th-century single-flight stair with turned balusters and a newel post. The interior features pine joinery throughout. At the time of inspection in June 1995, all windows on the upper floor except those facing the road were externally boarded.

The former minister's house, No. 64, is attached to the chapel, stepped down and set back. It is constructed similarly, with a plain gable end chimney on the right, plain capping, and weather coursing. The entrance features a part-glazed, four-panel Victorian door with arched, glazed upper panels, and there is a single window to the right on two floors, with plain 19th-century sashes that have been restored.

This chapel is noted for its unusual and restrained design from the early 19th century, situated prominently along the roadside.