Aberdare Hotel

The Aberdare Hotel is a public house featuring a distinctive three-bay facade made of decorative white faience in a free Classical style. The side walls are constructed of rubble and covered with cement render, while the building has a slate roof with rock-faced stone stacks. It stands two storeys high with an attic and cellar.

The symmetrical facade is topped with a parapet that has scrolls at both ends and a central semicircular pediment with a finial. Ionic pilasters are located at both ends and in the center, adorned with elaborate blind cartouches that include festoons and masks. The base of the facade features an implied plinth created by green tilework, which continues on the jambs of the central entrance.

The attic windows are decorated with festoons, and there is a central keyblocked oculus beneath the pediment, along with square-headed small-pane tipping casements on either side, which have shouldered architraves above a cornice. The first-floor windows are square-headed, with the outer ones being tripartite and featuring replaced glazing. The ground floor has wide segmental-headed three-light bar windows with keystones and later frosted glazing. The central round-arched doorway has a keystone and a recessed door, with a cartouche above it and the original metal lettering for ‘Aberdare Hotel’ set within scrolled panels on either side. The base is a rubble plinth, and there is a lower cross range at the rear.

The ground floor interior has been altered and refurbished.