Penrhiwceiber Institute and Community Hall

Entertainment hall with a modest Gothic Revival style frontage. Fronted with scored render on a plinth of rockfaced stone; window and door surrounds are of ashlar; at side the main storey is of painted brick with basement of rockfaced stone; Welsh slate part-hipped roof with moulded eaves and ventilators. Main street frontage is dominated by the hipped roofed projection box cantilevered out at first floor level with side bay windows with lead roofs. Above, the gable is cut off to form a parapet with end finials and central stepped datestone. Ground floor has central round-arched doorway within gabled and buttressed surround, incorporating dedication stone at base and apex finial above; panelled double doors. On either side are tri-partite cross-framed windows with segmental-arched heads. To side is a range of four tri-partite cross-framed windows with square heads to hall floor; smaller mullioned basement windows with segmental-arched brick heads. Glazing within the stone frames has been renewed.

Interior is an open hall with raked seats to rear and proscenium arch and stage to front. Ceiling is boarded and painted incorporating recesses for ventilators. The proscenium arch, with fluted end pilasters, is a 3-centred arch, rising from a cornice with a scrolled pediment motif at apex. The panelled wings to side have pedimented doorways. Tip-up seats to the raked rear. Swing doors. Lower floor meeting rooms.