This historic place was registered under the Historic Places Act 1993. The following text is from the N.Z Historic Places Trust Building Record form included with the Proposal for Classification at the time of registration. The Woodhaugh Hotel was licensed from 1883 to 1892. It has a prominent location on the corner of Malvern and Woodhaugh Streets in the centre of Woodhaugh Valley. The hotel is likely to have acted as a focus of community life in Woodhaugh Valley. The renovations of the street facades (c1990-92) has generated local interest and support. The building has changed hands a number of times this century and was purchased by Adrian Walden, a student from Auckland, in 1989. The Otago District Committee has suggested that it was one of the last stops on the bullock track which wound its way up the valley and over to Waitati.

Style: Retrained Victorian Italianate Construction: Bluestone foundations with triple brick, some quadruple brick exterior walls. Corrugated iron roof cladding. Double hung sash windows.