A Working Men's Club and Institute and Library were first established in Tylorstown in 1882 and this separate hall was built both as an institute and for entertainments in 1933 with donations from workers' wages, colliery companies and the public. It contained in the basement a library, reading room, snooker and games room and has always been used as a meeting place for local organisations. On the upper two floors is a large hall built as a dance and entertainment hall and used also as a cinema. This is a particularly important building type in the South Wales coalfield; the Institutes were a focus for enlightenment in new mining commutities.

Source: Cadw Listing Database. ALH 26/11/2012