The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing down Chapel Place towards Fore Street.

The central bay featured a doorway with a semi-circular fanlight flanked by Doric order columns supporting an open pediment; there was a round headed window on the first floor.

After the Methodist congregation moved to a larger church in Fore Street in 1874, the old chapel was used a magistrates' court and then as a town hall.

[2] Following significant population growth, largely associated with the paper industry, a local board of health was established in Ivybridge in 1873.

[10] An extension, which was projected forward and commissioned to accommodate a local business, Ivybridge Bathrooms and Kitchens, was erected at the east end of the complex in around 2007.