The Old Post Office (Between Numbers 3 And 5)

The Old Post Office, located between numbers 3 and 5 on Regent Street in Barnsley, is a former post office that has been converted into offices. Built in 1881, it features an ashlar facade with brick sides and a Welsh slate roof, designed in the Italianate style. The building is three storeys high with a symmetrical four-bay facade. The ground floor is rusticated and has elaborate square-headed portals on the left and right, each with double panelled doors and coved, grooved jambs. These portals are topped with large modillioned cornices on intricately scrolled brackets, adorned with lions' heads and floral bosses. There are two large square-headed sash windows on the ground floor. The first-floor sash windows are also square-headed, featuring moulded architraves and triangular pediments supported by scrolled brackets. A sill band with turned balusters runs beneath each window, and there is a moulded band above the first floor. The second-floor sash windows are square-headed with moulded architraves on a sill band, topped by a deep modillioned cornice.