The Greenland Fishery Hotel

The Greenland Fishery Hotel in Neston comprises three houses, later adapted as a house with a shop and two inns, now combined into a single hotel. The earliest section, No.1, dates to approximately 1722 and was altered in the 19th century, with a shop front added. No.2 is from the early 18th century, significantly refronted and remodelled in 1892. The buildings were joined to form a hotel in 1990.

The fronts are constructed of whitewashed roughcast on brick, with painted stone dressings, and have Welsh slate roofs. No.2 has a roof in two parallel ranges, with hipped gables to the street and added hipped-gabled half dormers with terracotta finials—three chimneys are present on the right-hand range. The building is two and a half storeys high. No.1 exhibits a two-window gabled front facing the street, whereas No.2 has a four-bay front. No.1 features a hotel entrance through a small-pane glazed and panelled door flanked by shop windows, the windows framed by plain pilasters beneath a sloped fascia and moulded cornice resting on consoles. The first-floor windows are recessed 6/6 sash windows in plain surrounds, and the attic holds a single 4/4 horizontal sliding sash window within a similar surround. Windows on both floors have sillbands. No.2’s front features a pedimented doorcase on the left side of the centre, with a glazed and panelled door (now fixed) and the word "HOTEL" painted within scrolled decoration in the tympanum. Ground floor windows are slightly projecting three-light leaded casements with moulded softwood sills and flat pulvinated heads, adorned with crown mouldings. The second floor has three 2/2 sash windows with pulvinated lintels; the right-of-centre bay displays a painted inn sign with a round arched head. A moulded cornice serves as the first-floor sill string; a painted band sits above the first-floor window heads. A heavy moulded eaves cornice and plain parapet are punctuated by two-light half dormer attic casements.

Internally, No.1 retains a firebeam, ceiling beams, exposed ceiling joists, timbers within the walls, old boarded doors on both the ground and first floors, and a cottage-style winder staircase. Exposed beams exist on the first floor; No.2’s attic shows exposed oak purlins, a good Queen Anne six-panel door with a semicircular head to the top panel, and an early cast-iron grate. There are also beams on the first-floor living quarters and a cottage staircase.

The earlier houses operated as separate inns, "The Black Bull" and "The Greenland Fishery," by 1822. They were combined under the present name in 1892, with a remodelling of the fronts. No.1 Parkgate Road was formerly listed separately.