[1] The thoroughfare was also known for some time as Conningshop Lane/Coneys shop lane due to the brace of three stuffed coney skins over a notable poulterer's stall, thus who also served game.

Rebuilt after the Great Fire to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, it was demolished in 1872[4] and its site used to build the Gresham Life Assurance office.

[3] In 1891, Henry B. Wheatley wrote that, with the removal of the church, "the clearing away of the old houses on both sides of the way, and the erection in their place of large blocks of offices and shops of considerable architectural pretensions, and the general widening of the thoroughfare, the Poultry has since 1850 been entirely changed in character and aspect.

No 1 Poultry is a postmodern office and retail building which is home to the Coq d'Argent restaurant, which includes a rooftop terrace and formal garden, and takes up what were numbers 1 to 17.

The bulk of the north side 27–35 Poultry was the London headquarters of Midland Bank, a Grade I listed building.