Contact Us | The Historic Bald Rock Hotel

Contact us!

address: 15 Mansfield Street,
Rozelle NSW 2039

phone: 02 9818 4792
fax: 02 9818 4792

Parking is easy at the Bald Rock Hotel. If you are planning to drive, it’s important that you stay under .05 blood alcohol concentration — the national legal limit. Don’t drink and drive! Best of all walk, or catch a cab, or take a bus, or visit our little pub with a non-alcohol drinking nominated driver.It’s very easy to get to the historic Bald Rock Hotel from the city by bus — take numbers 441 or 442 from Stand B outside the QVB in York Street. Ask the driver for Mansfield Street (there’s a Bald Rock Hotel banner attached to the fence and the bus stop is at speed-hump/pedestrian crossing). Walk to the end of Mansfield — you won’t miss our historic hotel on the left.Remember, if you’ve been drinking and decide to walk home or to another place: alcohol slows pedestrians, not the traffic!

The Historic Bald Rock Hotel History

‘Bald Rock’ was originally a suburb of the municipality of Balmain and is still listed as a sub-division electorate area for NSW Government elections. Prior to landfill, the hotel was close to the Bald Rock Wharf which had a direct public ferry link with Circular Quay. The wharf was sold in the late 1960s and has since been integrated into the White Bay Container Terminal.

The name, Bald Rock, is derived from the geographical nature of the surrounding land. Originally there was no vegetation whatsoever and from the water would be seen the outcrop of rocky mound that became known finally as the area — Bald Rock. Our proud little pub was built upon the rock in 1876 and is still in its original structure. It’s believed to be the oldest continuously licensed hotel still operating in the Balmain/Rozelle area and it reminds of a way of life that disappeared a long time ago.