Bathroom

An upstairs bathroom at the Terminus Hotel carries the standard fit-out of a Sydney pub-accommodation washroom: a wall-mounted basin, a tiled splashback in pale green hexagonal tile, a small mirror in a timber frame above the basin, and the bare timber floor of the upstairs corridor running through the doorway. The basin is glazed white porcelain, stained at the drain. The tap is brass, single-handled, dust-coated. The floor tiles are pale green hexagonal, the grout darkened with damp. The light reaches the room from a small frosted-glass window high in the wall above the basin.

The upstairs bathrooms at the Terminus served the long-term guests and the publican's family across the working life of the pub. The arrangement was the standard Sydney pub-accommodation layout through the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with shared bathrooms on each floor rather than ensuites in each guest room. The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild, with the bathroom block part of that accommodation fit-out. The pub closed in 1983 and the bathrooms were sealed for the 33 years that followed. The 2018 restoration rebuilt the upstairs bathroom facilities to modern hotel standards.