Constructed in 1892 at a cost of £3,300 and officially opened on Whit-Monday (22 May) 1893, Treharris Public Hall & Institute contained a large hall, library and reading room, recreation room, committee rooms, and a music hall. For much of its life, it was maintained by a levy on miners' wages. In use subsequently as a theatre, bingo hall, snooker club, and most famously as the Palace Cinema. By the mid-1990s, the building had fallen into disrepair and was slowly demolished. By the year 2000, nothing of the former Public Hall was left. The site is now an open space.

Daryl Leeworthy, RCAHMW, 9 September 2011.