Ton Pentre is, perhaps, best known for an event in 1924, when the Duke of York (later George VI of the United Kingdom) played a round of golf with Trade Unionist Frank Hodges.

One of the earliest recorded settlements in Ton Pentre is an Iron Age hillfort located at Maindy Camp.

the site of a cluster of platform houses or hafodi; small farming buildings, occupied only during the summer months.

It was the individual collieries that were at the heart of the separate 'villages' that emerged on the valley floor as they were the major employers in the area.

At the height of the mining industry, Ton Pentre was home to a few thousand people living in high-density terraced houses that spanned the whole valley.

On the seventh day of digging, a "massive seam of the best-quality steam coal" was finally found.

This has also been a contributory factor in the social deprivation that has stricken the area and leaves the South Wales Valleys with high unemployment.

The original building was constructed in 1895 next to the Crawshay Bailey Estate Office on Church Road.