The Canterbury Hotel is a pub located in the suburb of Canterbury in south west Sydney. The pub is one of the area’s most distinctive buildings having occupied the same prominent location along busy Canterbury Road for the past 80 years.

The current building was erected in the early 1940s by brewer Tooth & Co. using a design by C. C. Ruwald, one of era’s most prominent pub architects. The hotel was built in an Interwar Functionalist Style crowned with an ornate lantern that was once used as a lighthouse to guide ships passing through the nearby Cooks River.  The building also features a group of Pegasus-like winged horses, a nod the nearby Canterbury Racecourse. The pub has since been heritage listed due its design and unique history within the local area.

The inside of the pub features all the usual modern amenities one would expect from a pub in Sydney. During our last visit it appeared the pub had been recently renovated and now looks like most recently renovated pubs in Sydney. It’s a shame the owners didn’t use the opportunity to integrate aspects of the of pub’s unique history and the area’s strong ties to horseracing into its new design.