Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18506
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/07/1997
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
The Star Public House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Maesteg
Town
Maesteg
Locality
Maesteg
Easting
285117
Northing
191255
Street Side
SW
Location
Located near the corner of Commercial Road with Neath Road in the commercial centre of Maesteg.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built by David Harris between 1897 and 1901 as a public house and hotel.
Exterior
Built of red brick with stone dressings, now painted. Slate roof. Three storeys. The entrance is set on the N angle, with a projecting bay window on the first floor forming a canopy to the double panelled dors on the ground floor, and supported by corbels and iron columns. The elevation to Commercial Road is of 4 bays, with a gable in the third, emphasised by an arched opening on the ground floor. Canted oriel on the first floor over, and pedimented window under the gable, its apex crowned with a terminal block carved with a star motif on each face. Triple arch-headed windows to the ground floor. [the S end has been altered by an inserted modern shop front], and paired arch-headed windows with surrounds and cornice on the first floor. Wide architrave to the second floor windows. Over the door bay, an inscription on an inset painted curved face reads STAR / HOTEL / 1901.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a robustly designed hotel and public house which retains much of its original character, and important in its context at the road junction with Neath Road and Talbot Street.
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