On the green since 1637

A village inn with nearly four centuries behind it.

We're a village pub on the green in Willaston, cooking proper food and pouring a proper pint. Pies are made in our own kitchen, Sundays mean a roast with all the trimmings, and everyone gets the same warm welcome.

The building is Grade II listed: a red sandstone farmhouse and barn, with the date 1637 carved into a first-floor chimney piece. Inside, the beams and ceiling joists are exposed, and a huge stone chimney stack still runs the full height of the house.

Four centuries on the green

From farmhouse to local.

Pollards Inn was once Corner House Farm, so named because it stood on the corner of Willaston's village green. The exact date of the first building isn't known, but a first-floor chimney piece carries the carving JB · AB · 1637 · TB · EB, thought to be the initials of the Bennett family who lived here. The red sandstone farmhouse was altered and extended around 1700. In 1983 the farm closed, and the building was converted into a hotel and restaurant, named after the last family to farm it.

Willaston is recorded in the Domesday Book, and its green may once have been the meeting place for the whole of Wirral. Pollards sits among a cluster of 17th-century buildings around it, including The Old Red Lion from 1631. The Grade II listing protects the fabric of the house; the feeling of the place comes from the people in it.

Historical detail from the Historic England listing, Neston Town Council and Willaston local history.

What you can count on

Three things we get right.

Welcoming

First visit or fiftieth, you get the same welcome and the same honest pint.

Delicious

Home-cooked, traditional food. Our pies are made here, and our steaks are aged for 28 days.

Local

Fish in Brimstage and Weetwood ale batters, and pigs in blankets made with David Joinson's of Chester sausage meat.

About Pollards Inn