The Agar Steps are a set of Victorian-era stone stairs in Millers Point that connect Kent Street to Observatory Hill. They are distinguished by a tall, palisade-style wrought iron fence with cast iron spearheads that runs alongside them,…
Historic Millers Point Pubs
This walk takes you through the quiet, sandstone-paved streets of Millers Point to visit Sydney's oldest watering holes and historic dockworkers' cottages. You will learn about the rich maritime heritage and the community campaigns that saved this legendary neighborhood from demolition.
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1. Agar Steps
2. Captain Cook Hotel
The Captain Cook Hotel is a two-story rendered brick building with a signature diagonal door on the corner of Kent Street and High Lane. It remains one of the few surviving late nineteenth-century corner hotels in the Millers Point area,…
3. The Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel
The Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel sits at nineteen Kent Street, defined by its three-story sandstone facade and the visible chisel marks on the stone blocks. Built in the late eighteen thirties by William Wells, a former convict turned…
4. The Garrison Church
The Garrison Church sits at the corner of Argyle and Lower Fort streets, distinguishable by its heavy, locally quarried sandstone walls and the series of pointed Gothic arches that line its exterior. Officially named the Holy Trinity…
5. The Hero of Waterloo Hotel
The Hero of Waterloo Hotel is a three-story building constructed from rough-hewn sandstone, situated at the corner of Lower Fort and Windmill streets. Built between eighteen forty-three and eighteen forty-four by the stonemason George…
6. Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks
The Harbour View Hotel at eighteen Lower Fort Street sits directly beneath the southern approach of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Its walls of brick and stone replaced an earlier eighteen-forty-three hotel that once stood on the opposite…
7. Hotel Palisade
The Hotel Palisade commands the high ground of Millers Point, its five-story brick and sandstone frame rising tall above the surrounding harbour precinct. Built in nineteen fifteen and nineteen sixteen, the structure is a prominent example…