The Criterion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1990. Public house. 33 related planning applications.
The Criterion Public House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-casement-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1990
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Criterion Public House, 11 High Street, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF37 1QJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 072 898
- Coordinates
- 51.60001, -3.34109
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Criterion Public House is a symmetrical two-storey and attic building, notable for its unusual gable front. The attic features a jettied design supported by deep fluted brackets and is adorned with East Anglian style foliage pargetting around a small pane casement window. On the first floor, there are panelled pilasters at the ends and a central tripartite window that projects forward in a Jacobean triangular style. Between the pilasters, vertical plasterwork panels depict dragons, foliage, and bowls of fruit, while a horizontal plaster panel below the window showcases dolphins. The ground floor is set back behind a mosaic and lettered pavement and features a panelled ceiling. The central bay is five-sided and rests on a bulbous, bowl-like base, with four-centred arched windows that have slender colonnettes and overlights featuring tulip pattern stained glass. This bay is flanked by panelled doors with similar overlights. The roof is covered in slate.
Inside, the public house boasts an ornate panelled ceiling with moulded ribs and foliage friezes on the main cross beams and cornice. Opposite the bar, there is an Art Nouveau tiled dado.
Local climate
The Criterion Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 33 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Railway Bridge beneath Pontypridd Railway Station
- Eglwys Gymraeg Sardis (Sardis Chapel)
- Pontypridd Railway Station Main Platform including buildings and canopy
- National Westminster Bank
- Pontypridd Register Office
- Railway Bridge over Sardis Road
- Lloyds TSB Bank, Market Square branch
- 8 Church Street
- 7 Church Street
- 9 Church Street