page_title: Babinda State Hotel
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Babinda State Hotel / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: State Hotel, Babinda, ca. 1924.
context_page_description: Babinda State Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 65-85 Munro Street, Babinda, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Department of Public Works and built from 1916 to 1917 by day labour. It is also known as Babinda Hotel. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 22 February 2002.
context_section_description: The Babinda Hotel is located on Munro Street, Babinda and occupies a prominent position in the town's main street.
  The Hotel is a two-storey building, constructed of timber and roofed with corrugated iron sheeting. The front facade of the building features open verandahs with a series of single and double timber posts.
  A gabled pediment in the centre of the building with a timber infill defines the entrance to the hotel. Twin timber doors, surrounded by leadlight windows inscribed with the BSH insignia, provide access to the hotel. On either side of the entrance are a number of casement windows.
  The ground floor of the hotel consists of two bars (main bar and western bar), dining room, kitchen, gambling room, games room, gym, cellar/storeroom and private office. The second floor consists of a public accommodation wing that opens onto a wide verandah overlooking Munro Street as well as a private residence and an internal verandah that overlooks the games room.
  The accommodation wing on the second floor features a number of ornate timber archways in the hallway and double French doors that open onto the verandah.
  The main bar on the ground floor features steel beams that run across the ceiling that once transported kegs from the storeroom to the bar. The western bar (originally the private bar) features a silky oak archway and balustrade that defines the entrance of the bar and servery. The lower part of the walls of the main entrance and western bar are also silky oak.
  To the rear of the hotel there is a concrete slab that defines the old stable floors.
  The ornate roof ventilator was removed in the 1980s.
caption: State Hotel, Babinda, circa 1924
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