Hallway From Main Guest Rooms

The hallway running from the main guest rooms at the Terminus Hotel sits on the upper floor of the building, the timber-floored passage lined with the same floral wallpaper that runs through the rooms it serves. Doorways open along both sides of the hall: the publican's room at one end, smaller guest rooms along the rest. The skirting board is dark-stained timber. The ceiling is pressed-metal, painted cream, with a row of pendant light fittings spaced down the centre. The carpet runner has been removed; the timber floor underneath shows the darker wear pattern along the centre line where decades of foot traffic passed.

The upstairs hall at the Terminus carried the foot traffic of the publican's family and the long-term guests who lived in the upstairs rooms across the working life of the pub. Sydney pubs of this era operated as accommodation as well as bars, with the publican typically living in the largest upstairs room and rooming travellers, casual workers, and itinerant trades in the smaller rooms. The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild, and the upstairs accommodation was part of compliance with the NSW licensing reform that triggered that rebuild. The pub ran this way until the 1983 closure. After closure the upstairs rooms were emptied or partially emptied across the years. The 2018 restoration refitted the upstairs as guest accommodation on similar plans to the original.