The Laurieston Bar, 58 Bridge Street And 2 And 4 Nelson Street

The Laurieston Bar, located at 58 Bridge Street and 2 and 4 Nelson Street, is a public house that underwent comprehensive remodelling in the 1960s, transforming an earlier building likely from the mid to late 19th century. It is now a single-storey structure with a flat roof, featuring seven bays facing Bridge Street and five bays on Nelson Street. Both elevations are symmetrical, with central double-leaf timber boarded doors. The exterior is distinctive with a black and white color scheme, including a narrow black tiled base course and deep bands of black and white 1960s-style tiling positioned above and below fixed pane obscured-glass windows. The building displays a vertically set stained boarded timber fascia with the name "THE LAURIESTON" on both street sides, topped by a shallow cream-painted parapet.

Inside, the bar retains a rare near-intact 1960s design that incorporates an earlier island bar serving both the public bar and the lounge. The entrance from Bridge Street leads to a small off-sales section, with the public bar to the left and the lounge to the right. The streamlined boarded timber island bar features a Formica bar counter and is complemented by a pair of timber and Formica gantries with inset strip lighting.

In the public bar, there is timber flooring and a panelled timber ceiling, along with bench-style seating that has a varnished timber band above. The furnishings include narrow, oval fixed two-tier Formica tables, timber chairs, and some bar stools that likely date back to the 1960s.

The lounge area also features bench-style seating with a deep varnished timber band above, which incorporates small bell pushes for table service. A rare glazed divider screen is present on the bar counter, and the ceiling is adorned with square orange and brown panels. At the rear of the lounge, there are Formica-lined ladies' and gents' lavatories.