Schoolroom at Salem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel

The building is a schoolroom at Salem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, built in the classical style, likely during the 18th century. It is situated alongside a later schoolroom addition. The original schoolroom is two storeys high and built with pebbledash on rubble masonry, with stuccoed dressings. It has a gabled slate roof with deep verges and bargeboards supported by brackets. The three-bay front features a pedimented centre bay with brackets and a plain entablature. Channelled pilasters extend to gallery level, supporting three round-arched windows, the central one being broader and featuring moulded arch rings and pilasters, as well as a sill band. The windows have small paned glazing with sidebars. Pediments on consoles top the square-headed ground floor windows, which have moulded architraves and similar glazing above. Flanking the main block are staircase bays with deep eaves on brackets and channelled end pilasters. Gallery windows have lugged architraves and small paned sidebar glazing. Advanced single-storey entrance wings project from the ground floor, each with a hipped slate roof, miniature pediments, brackets, and channelled stuccoed elevations. They feature round-arched windows with sidebar glazing set within a Tuscan surround incorporating a blocking course and entablature on pilasters. Return elevations exhibit a similar entablature on Tuscan columns. Panelled double doors are located below deep, rectangular fanlights. A raised forecourt is enclosed by walls of squared coursed rubble with a plinth and features square end and gate piers with moulded caps topped with ball finials, along with contemporary iron gates and railings. A stone staircase leads from the street to the centre of the forecourt.

The later schoolroom, adjoining to the left, is pebbledashed with stuccoed dressings and has a steeply pitched slate roof with a central gable and deep eaves on brackets. It features channelled end pilasters and a plinth with three windows below the gable. A tall, central round arched window tops the facade, and flanking windows have lugged architraves, featuring "Victorian" sash windows and a common sill. An unsympathetic vent pipe has been inserted. A porch is located on the right-end elevation, incorporating a gabled slate roof, channelled stucco, cavetto jambs, panelled double doors, and a bull's eye window in the gable end. Contemporary forecourt wall and railings with dogbars are present.

The interior features a semicircular, galleried space with a half-domed, ribbed ceiling. A flat section incorporates an ornate ventilator panel. An impost band defines the gallery, which has a raked front with curved panelled detailing, dentils, and pilasters. Cast iron columns are present, along with annulets and composite capitals. The deacon's seats feature depressed arcading, while the pulpit exhibits rich Italianate decoration with fluted square newels and balusters. A full entablature on fluted Corinthian pilasters with bases surrounds a moulded depressed arch with panelled soffits and impost blocks to the organ chamber. Angular staircase lobbies feature splat balusters to the gallery stairs.