Police are investigating a fire that destroyed a hospitality home on the Southern Shore Wednesday. (RCMP)

A fire destroyed a bed and breakfast on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula Wednesday, not long after crews extinguished a kitchen fire.

Ferryland fire chief Algy Winsor confirmed his department responded to Hagan's Hospitality Home at 12:30 p.m., on Route 10 near Aquaforte.

Winsor said crews put out a fire in the kitchen, checked to make sure the fire hadn't spread and then left.

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Then two hours later, according to Winsor, they were called back to the home and it was completely on fire.

"It was an inferno," he said. "We were shocked."

Hagan's Hospitality Home in Aquaforte was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. (Submitted)

Police are investigating.

Aquaforte, one of a string of historic outports on the Southern Shore, is about 85 km south of St. John's.