Birdsville Hotel, Historic hotel in Birdsville, Australia

Birdsville Hotel is a single-storeyed building of local stone, rendered and scribed, with elevations to Burt and Adelaide Streets and a truncated corner marking the original main entrance. Its hipped corrugated-iron roof sits behind a low masonry parapet raised at the corner to carry the words "Birdsville Hotel" and "Established 1884". A corrugated-iron awning on timber posts with a scalloped timber valance runs along the street elevations, and quoining at windows and doors is picked out in dark colour, as since at least the 1920s.

The building was constructed in 1884 by publican William Blair and withstood multiple cyclones throughout its history, including a major storm in 1905. It remains one of the few structures still standing from the town's founding era.

The hotel's name and its "Established 1884" parapet lettering are visible from Burt and Adelaide Streets. It has long been the focus of festivities tied to the annual Birdsville Races, and in 1985 it served as the major waypoint on Dick Smith's Bourke to Burketown Bash charity race.

The hotel stands at the corner of Burt and Adelaide Streets, its main entrance marked by the truncated corner of the building. A corrugated iron awning on timber posts runs along both street elevations, giving shade at the doors. The beer garden and extra bars are modern additions at the northern end.

The hotel is one of just three surviving masonry buildings from the 1880s in Birdsville, making it part of a rare group of structures from the town's founding period. Its neighboring buildings, the former Royal Hotel and the police station, together form an exceptional collection of early architecture.