Deckers Club is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Club.
Deckers Club
- WRENN ID
- empty-bracket-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1991
- Type
- Club
- Address
- Deckers Club, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- SO 000 026
- Coordinates
- 51.71351, -3.4476
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Deckers Club is a three-storey building with an almost symmetrical main block that is positioned at a corner. It features a three-bay window arrangement and classical detailing. Flanking the main block are two-storey ranges that mirror the style, with three bays and two bays facing High Street and three, two, and two bays facing Canon Street. The building is topped with slate roofs that have tiled cresting.
The most striking feature is the steeply pitched French chateau style roof at the center, which is adorned with an ironwork crown and has an elaborate acanthus-derived panelled band at the base. Each three-bay section is highlighted by advanced pilaster strips that extend from the ground floor entablature. The ground floor is accentuated with full pilasters that display intricate detailing. A deep parapet crowns the main section, which was originally stone balustraded and featured a clock in a pediment form.
Moulded architraves embellish the second floor, while the first floor showcases scrolled and lion's head carved brackets that support a segmental cornice, leading to 'detached' pediments. The central first-floor window above the entrance is tripartite, featuring scrolled detailing beneath a pediment and a lettered panel above; this window appears to have once had a balcony. The ground floor has semi-circular headed openings and similarly arched recesses, each with fluted keystones above the labels. An impost band with studded ornament runs along the lower parts of the fluted and panelled pilasters that flank modern panelled central doors, which replaced the original doors that were set further back, as seen in the right-hand entrance, now partly blocked.
All windows have been replaced with modern top-hung casements. The ground floor entablature extends across the first three-window sections of the lower side ranges, which have similar windows but without pediments. There are round arched openings below, with three facing High Street and two facing Canon Street, the latter of which have been modified to create 'Deckers'. The two bays beyond this on Canon Street feature modern shop fronts, while the equivalent section on High Street has a door and window. The rear of the building has a lower hipped section with tall round arches reminiscent of a chapel.
Local climate
Deckers Club sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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