Corner Facade

The corner of Harris and John Streets carries the public face of the Terminus Hotel, the building's two main facades meeting at a chamfered corner that holds the pub's principal entrance. The brick is red and weathered. The corner-facing wall steps back slightly from the street to make room for a recessed doorway under a stone hood. Sash windows at the upper floor look down on the corner from both directions. Ivy has climbed across some of the Harris Street side but the corner itself is clear. A power pole stands at the kerb. The footpath is concrete, broken in places.

The chamfered corner with a recessed entry was the standard frontage of NSW corner hotels through the Federation period, designed to draw foot traffic from both streets. The Terminus's corner reads as a textbook example. The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild of the earlier pub on the site, undertaken in response to NSW licensing reform that required hotels to provide accommodation. The site has carried a continuous licence since 1841 under four names: Pyrmont Hotel, Land's End, Coopers Arms, and Terminus. The pub closed in 1983 and stood vacant for 33 years before the 2018 reopening returned the corner to service.