Harris Street

The Harris Street frontage of the Terminus Hotel shows the corner of the building from the south, two storeys of red brick rising above the footpath with the pub's main entrance at the corner. Sash windows at the upper floor look down at the street. The lower storey carries the bar windows and the public entrance, with the door recessed slightly into the brick face. Ivy has climbed along part of the frontage but most of the brickwork is clear. The footpath at the front of the pub is concrete, broken in places where tree roots have lifted it. A power pole near the corner carries the overhead cabling that replaced the tram wires after the line closed.

Harris Street ran the original Pyrmont electric tram line from 1898 to 1953. The Harris and John Streets corner where the Terminus stands was the established Pyrmont terminus of that line, which is where the pub took its name when it was renamed around 1900. The tram was powered by the Ultimo power station and full-time service was withdrawn in 1917, the same year Tooth and Co. demolished and rebuilt the pub in the form visible today. The pub closed in 1983 and stood vacant for 33 years before the 2018 reopening returned the building to service.