Butchers Poyntons Shoe Shop Trustee Savings Bank Kelsey

This is a mid-18th century house, altered in the early 19th century and the 20th century, now comprising three shops with accommodation above. The building is constructed of red brick with a hipped pantile roof, featuring decorative eaves, two ridge stacks, and a single projecting stack to the rear.

The south front is three storeys high and has nine bays. Bands mark the first and second floors, with the three central bays projecting slightly and topped by a dentilated pediment. A 20th-century marble shop front occupies the three bays on the right-hand side. To the left is an early 19th-century shop front with a central doorway, featuring a three-quarter glazed door. Flanking the doorway are shop windows: to the right, a window of two lights; to the left, a plate glass window, both with flanking pilasters and a continuous bracketed entablature with a projecting cornice above. A blocked window with a segmental head is located to the far left, beyond which is a plain sash window also with a segmental head. Another shop front from the early 19th century is on the left, featuring a canted shop window of three lights to the right, paired with a narrow angled light. Fielded panelling is below, and ornate bracketed entablature above. A doorway on the south-west corner has a blind overlight and a deepset glazed door. Nine windows above include three glazing bar sashes to the right, four plain sashes to the left, and two further glazing bar sashes. Above these are nine small glazing bar sashes. All windows have segmental heads.

The west front is also three storeys high and has four bays, again with first and second floor bands. An early 19th-century canted shop window is located to the right, with three lights flanked by single lights, fielded panelling below, and a bracketed entablature above. Another early 19th-century shop front is to the left, with a doorway flanked by pilasters, an overlight, and a panelled door. A canted shop window to the left is flanked by pilasters, with fielded panelling below and a bracketed entablature above. Above, glazing bar sashes alternate with blind panels, flanked by single smaller outer glazing bar sashes. All windows and blind panels have segmental heads.

This house was formerly the town house of Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist and explorer (1743-1820).