Wattstown Hotel, Wattstown

This is one of the few remaining large late-19th-century pubs in the South Wales valleys that have escaped serious modernisation. A visit to the Wattstown Hotel is recommended to see a little-altered snug and passageway drinking rarely seen today. This solid three-storey building of 1892, licensed in 1904, was used as a mortuary following the mining disaster in the National Colliery at Wattstown on 11th July 1905.

As you walk in you can usually find some locals drinking in the wide passage with a lino floor and service from a hatch still with sliding windows but with minor 1960s changes. The little-altered smoke room at the rear left is served via a small hatch with a Formica top and front that looks to have been converted from a doorway in the 1960s. The small room has red leather banquette seating around the walls, a tiled & wood surround fireplace and there is a row of "clerestory" windows at the top of the wooden partition wall to the back of the bar. The front right-hand lounge has modern seating and the rear right room is now used for storage.