Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House

The Wheatsheaf Hotel Public House is a public house built between 1897 and 1898 by S Oswald & Son for Bell & Taylor. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with a granite plinth and door architraves, topped with a roof of graduated slates and ashlar chimneys. The building has a roughly triangular plan with a rounded west side and is designed in a classical style.

It stands three storeys tall, featuring four windows facing Roker Avenue and six on the rounded corner, with one wider window on Thomas Street North. The ground floor is rusticated, with doors located in the second and sixth bays of the curved section and in the third bay on Roker Avenue. These doors are six-panelled with plain overlights, set in granite architraves with scroll brackets that support segmental pediment hoods. The ground-floor windows are fixed lights, some with opening transom lights, and are adorned with rusticated voussoirs and triple keys that rise through the frieze to the cornice of the ground-floor entablature.

The upper floors are marked by bays defined by rusticated pilasters with Ionic capitals, which support a large dentilled entablature featuring the words "WHEAT SHEAF HOTEL" incised in well-cut letters on the frieze. The sash windows on these floors have upper glazing bars and are set in architraves, with cornices on the first-floor windows and ogee pediments above the doors and in the bay between the doors on the curve. The second floor has blind bays above the doors in the curve, each featuring a low-relief carved wheatsheaf. The roof has a curved hip over the curved end and is topped with three tall corniced ashlar chimneys. This building is significant as it stands at the junction of six roads.