It is obvious from the outside that The Butcher’s Hook and Cleaver is formed from two buildings. One was a wholesale butcher’s and the other a bank, so it's is another fine example of Fuller, Turner and Smith’s numerous bank conversions. The interior is of the high standard one would expect, light wood, tiled and airy with a cast-iron staircase leading to a mezzanine. In addition to its literal meaning, “butcher’s hook” is also Cockney rhyming slang, that secret language supposedly originated by London East End villains. So, if someone says “give us a butcher’s”, they mean that they want to have a look at something.