The Star PH

Original axis was on a central passage from main entrance but interior has been replanned and refurbished.

Edwardian Baroque style. Building is mostly rendered with rough cast, partly red brick, with stone and brick dressings and a Welsh slate roof with ridge and gable stacks. It has two storeys and is asymmetrical with main entrance and frontage to junction and second entrance on main Rhondda thoroughfare. Very decorative gabled end entrance bay breaks forward; banded brick and stone pilasters with decorative extended stone capitals and dentil moulded cornice give pediment treatment enriched by stone and brick decoration and a terracotta star and date. At first floor level is a central multipane window, the stone architrave of which has volutes to the jambs and blind semicircular head with keystone. Ground floor has an imposing semicircular brick entrance bay with stone balustraded parapet and large central inscription section; the original door now blocked is flanked by Ionic capitals with two side windows. The long frontage to Tyntyla Road comprises a 2 window range gable end facade and a longer recessed bay, both of contrasting render, brick and stone. The former is dominated by a wide central brick flue with attached stone mouldings rising to a corniced chimney; stone and brick pilasters as on main frontage; first floor windows with multipane upper sections have semi-circular heads emphasised by brick hoodmoulds, and long ground floor windows, now partly blocked, which have deep decorative pedimented stone surrounds. The latter has a porch with paired columns on brick plinth walls parallel to the gable end and the long elevation is similarly dominated by a central brick panel with a decorative stone inscription, a narrow horned 6/6 pane sash window at 1st floor level and a heavy decorative cornice rising above the eaves; some other multipane windows and prominent stone mullions; the roof is hipped to right and the wall terminates in a matching stone and brick pilaster.