| Description | This post office was built in 1886 by Sir Henry Tanner, who was an architect for the Post Office. It is built from ashlar and has slate hipped roofs. It has an almost symmetrical front, and is two storeys high with attics. The centre block is five windows wide, with the centre in slight projection. The ground floor has rectangular openings with wide banded pilasters supporting a continuous entablature across the whole building at first floor level. The first floor has round arch windows with keyblocks and a continuous moulded impost, with the centre window being flanked by paired pilasters. Above the centre window in the roof is a segmental pedimented gable with a clock face, which is flanked by two small wooden pedimented gables, balustraded parapets and modillion cornice. The centre block has a steep pitched hipped slate roof with a wooden bell turret over the centre. Flanking the centre block are projecting two storey pavilions with ground floor entrances, wide modillion cornices and steep pitched hipped roofs above the main roof level. On either side there are two lower wings stepped back, of three and two windows with mansard and hipped roofs. |