The Macintosh Arms And Property Adjacent To Left

This building is a house, shop, and public house, built in 1826 by Woodhead and Hurst of Doncaster for the Aire and Calder Navigation. It has undergone alterations, including a later 19th-century shop front, 20th-century changes, and a late 19th-century addition to the rear. The building is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with a colour-washed finish, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is three storeys high, with three windows on the first floor.

The entrance to the left of the centre has an original stucco or ashlar doorcase featuring pilasters that support an entablature with a modillioned cornice and hood. It has a 20th-century double-panelled door and a plain overlight. To the left is a later 19th-century shop front with a recessed, half-glazed fielded-panel door and a 4-light window with moulded mullions above an apron featuring basket-arched panels. To the right, a former similar shop front has been filled in with 20th-century brickwork incorporating three windows. The remaining shop fronts are framed in wood, with single pilasters on either side carrying a plain frieze with a modillioned cornice (boxed-in on the left). An ashlar sill band runs along the first floor. The first floor has four-pane sash windows within original openings, each beneath a rubbed-brick cambered arch. The second floor has shorter six-pane sashes with sills and similar arches. A plain 20th-century wooden eaves board is present. A stack straddles the ridge, featuring a plain ashlar band and a brick cornice.

Inside, the entrance hall has moulded ribbed cornices and a round-arched opening with an archivolt and panelled pilasters with roundel ornaments. The shop has a moulded cornice on the ground floor left. A room at the rear of the ground floor left features elaborate late 19th-century plasterwork friezes with urns and foliage, an ornate cornice, and a panelled ceiling with openwork floral and grapevine motifs, including a ceiling rose. An adjoining billiard room has an octagonal panelled ceiling with similar plasterwork designs, rising to an octagonal lantern. Both rooms have low 20th-century false ceilings, with the original ceilings visible through glass panels.

The building is part of the original planned port settlement beside Goole Docks, and Aire Street was the main commercial street.