The Star PH

The Star Public House is an Edwardian Baroque building, dating from the early 20th century. It is constructed mostly of rough cast render, with areas of red brick, stone dressings, and a Welsh slate roof with ridge and gable stacks. The two-storey building has an asymmetrical design, with a main entrance facing the street junction and a second entrance on the main Rhondda road. A prominent, decorative gabled entrance bay projects forward; it features banded brick and stone pilasters with decorative extended stone capitals, a dentil-moulded cornice, and a pediment enriched by brick and stone decoration, culminating in a terracotta star and the date. A central multipane window is located at first floor level, set within a stone architrave with volutes to the jambs and a blind semicircular head with a keystone. The ground floor features an imposing semicircular brick entrance bay with a stone balustraded parapet and a large central inscription section. The original entrance door is now blocked and flanked by Ionic capitals and two side windows. The long frontage to Tyntyla Road consists of a two-window range gable end facade and a longer recessed bay, both with contrasting render, brick, and stone. The gable end is dominated by a wide central brick flue with attached stone mouldings rising to a corniced chimney; it also features stone and brick pilasters matching those on the main frontage. First-floor windows in this section have multipane upper sections within semi-circular heads emphasised by brick hoodmoulds. Ground-floor windows, now partly blocked, have deep decorative pedimented stone surrounds. The recessed bay has a porch with paired columns on brick plinth walls, and a central brick panel with a decorative stone inscription, a narrow horned 6/6 pane sash window at first floor level, and a heavy decorative cornice rising above the eaves. Other multipane windows are also present, along with prominent stone mullions. The roof is hipped to the right, and the wall terminates in a matching stone and brick pilaster. The original interior layout, based on a central passage from the main entrance, has been replanned and refurbished.