Celynen Collieries Workmen's Institute

One of the larger extant miners' institutes. Of red and yellow brick, some painted, with painted stone dressings; hipped slate roof, part Welsh part artificial, with overhanging eaves sprocketed to sides, central ventilator and gable finials with tile-hung apexes, formerly incorporating some fishscale tiling; rockfaced stone plinth. Upper windows mostly have fixed glazing with tipping casements in the multipane upper lights; plate glazing to ground floor, altered; some windows blocked; decorative surrounds in yellow brick have a moulded nookshaft and chamfered lintels incorporating a central round moulding. Main frontage faces thoroughfare: 2 storeys, separated by a moulded string with floral frieze to entrance; 9-window range in 3 bays. To left and advanced is a gabled bay with 4 round-headed windows with decorative hoodmould to first floor, paired and with a roundel above to centre; that to right is full length with a small balcony. Rectangular ground floor windows and original blocked round-arched doorway with moulded pilasters and wide decorative capitals and keystone bracket. To right and to end right the 2 bays have 2 close-set windows to each floor separated by an inscription band 'Celynen Collieries Workmens Institute'. Intervening bay - centre right - is gabled with similar paired round headed windows to first floor and a canted bay window with decorative crest below. Side 4-bay elevation to side street has 2 pairs of round-headed windows to first floor extending above eaves level with gables above; similar rectangular windows to first and ground floor which also has a canted bay with decorative crest, and a doorway end left which is now the main entrance.

Interior mostly refurbished. First floor billiard room.