Stafford Railway Building Society

This is an office building, dating to approximately 1840, with an addition from around 1870. It is constructed of brick with an ashlar facade, and has a parapeted roof. The style is Classical.

The building is three storeys high, originally a single-window range, with a later five-window range to the left. The ground floor has channelled rustication. The first and second floors have flanking giant Corinthian pilasters, a top frieze, and a deep cornice. A round-headed entrance is located to the left of a round-headed window, both featuring archivolts and impost courses; they are now fitted with a 20th-century door and casement. The first-floor window has an eared architrave, a consoled cornice with scrolled cresting, and a casement, flanked by inserted narrow windows. The second-floor window has a shouldered and eared architrave and a small-paned casement. The ground floor has a black letter inscription within the spandrel, reading "THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY/ ESTABLISHED/1872."

The five-bay range has channelled rustication on the ground floor, along with an acanthus frieze and cornice, and a shallow balcony with balustrading to the first floor. The top entablature has festoons and a balustraded parapet. A segmental-headed carriage entrance to the bank passage to the left of the centre has enriched spandrels and brackets to a wider balcony above. The former round-headed entrance at the left end retains an archivolt, impost course, and a fanlight over a 20th-century infill. The right end has two round-headed windows with glazing over fielded panels. The first floor has windows with friezes and consoled cornices over four-pane horned sashes, while the second floor has windows with four-pane horned sashes. A scrolled iron lamp bracket is present on the carriageway. The rear of the building features two gabled, brick, two-storey wings.

The William Salt Library was originally located here before being transferred to its current site on Eastgate Street in 1918.