Wickham Hotel, Heritage-listed hotel in Fortitude Valley, Australia

The Wickham Hotel is a three-story building featuring a rendered brick facade and timber-framed verandahs located on Wickham Street in Fortitude Valley. The building houses bars, dining areas, and event spaces arranged across multiple levels.

The building was designed by architect Richard Gailey in 1885 and originally operated under the name Oriental. Denis O'Connor acquired it in 1895 and owned it until 1937.

From 1996 the Wickham became known as gay-friendly and drew members of the LGBTI community; resident DJ Mark Alsop played there between 1997 and 1999. A 2014 renovation and rebrand turned the former car park into an outdoor laneway space and opened the upstairs balcony to patrons.

The hotel occupies the corner of Wickham, Ballow and Alden Streets, with five sets of timber double doors giving entry from the street; the main entry on Wickham Street opens to a foyer with a timber stair to the first floor. The ground floor holds bars, service areas and a bottle shop, while the first and second floors are mostly accommodation, so only the ground floor is open to casual visitors. The upstairs balcony was opened to patrons after the 2014 renovation, and the former car park became an outdoor laneway space.

The main Wickham Street entry opens into a foyer with a richly embellished plaster ceiling and cornice, from which a generously proportioned timber stair rises to the first floor. That stair stops there; a narrow timber stair in an L-shaped corridor continues to the second floor. The upper floors keep rendered masonry walls, plaster cornices and skirtings, and half-glazed doors with fanlights onto the verandah.