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West End Hotel, Townsville, Heritage-listed hotel in Townsville, Australia

West End Hotel is a two-storey brick building on the corner of Ingham Road and Jane Street, with a splayed corner and a corrugated iron hipped roof. It has a two-storey timber verandah and awning to both street frontages, with a decorative timber balustrade in a union jack design. The brickwork is laid in English bond, and the original red bricks have been painted over.

Peter Dean built the West End Hotel in 1885 and became its first licensee. Standing opposite the Pastoral and Agricultural Society Showgrounds and near the racecourse, it was the first stop for travellers arriving over Hervey's Range from inland stations. It has survived three cyclones and was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 June 1999.

The hotel was the terminus of the West End Omnibus Line, which ran between Tattersalls Hotel on Flinders Street East and the West End Hotel. Prizes from the 1886 sports meetings at the showgrounds opposite were presented here. The building is still well patronised during Townsville Show Week.

The hotel stands on the corner of Ingham Road and Jane Street, with the main entrance on the splayed corner and a two-storey verandah and awning wrapping both street frontages. The bar occupies the ground floor east of the central hall, while the two full-depth rooms west of the hall are used as pool rooms. A detached brick kitchen block sits at the rear, linked by modern extensions.

The hotel stands on a splayed corner at Ingham Road and Jane Street, and its two-storey verandah carries a timber balustrade in a "union jack" pattern. The original red bricks of the English-bond walls have been painted over, and the street awning's profile was altered in recent changes.

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