Walker, Oil Mill Road, Neptune Hotel

HER Number:
15870

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walker, Oil Mill Road, Neptune Hotel

Place:
Walker

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Bought by W.B Reid in 1903. In 1908 it was reconstructed as the Neptune Hotel. It was a three-storey hotel, the façade decorated with tiles. There were alterations in 1937. In 1952 the ground floor singing room was altered. The Neptune Hotel closed in 1976.

Easting:
2983

Northing:
6542

Grid Reference:
NZ29836542

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 44