Post Office

This is an 1885 office building, now a post office, located in Doncaster. It was constructed by Frederick Williams Masters and has undergone later alterations. The building is built of red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, featuring crested clay ridge tiles. It stands three storeys high, with a basement, and has four bays, the right-hand bay projecting slightly and divided into two sections on the ground and first floors. A plinth with stone copings is present, along with thin pilaster buttresses between the bays. These buttresses have stone offsets and rise above the ground floor as triangular sectioned pilasters, topped by stone finials. The two central bays feature blocked 4-centred arched basement windows with recessed panels to the spandrels. The right-hand bay has steps leading to a recessed, double-chamfered doorcase, with a mullioned overlight containing three 4-centred arched lights. Above the doorcase is a recessed 20th-century window. A similar window is located to the left, above a transom level, incorporating a clockface. Moulded stone sills are present to the three left-hand windows. Above, a chamfered stone stringcourse is visible. The first floor has four-light mullion and transomed windows with 4-centred arched heads to the lights; the window to the left also includes ogee tracery to the two central lights, incorporating a clockface. The two right-hand bays have three-light windows with a continuous hoodmould and stone keystones supporting triangular sectioned pilaster buttresses that rise to stone finials. Below the first-floor windows is a double frieze of blind panels, with a continuous sill stringcourse to the top. The second floor features a string course and four gabled bays, all with tall 4-centred arched 3-light mullion and transomed windows with pointed head lights. Stone keystones act as corbels to triangular sectioned pilasters with stone finials, and all windows have chamfered brick hoodmoulds. Moulded copings are present to the gables, with a single stringcourse to each left-hand gable and two to the right-hand gable. A polygonal brick end stack is located to the left, featuring a large stepped cornice. The ground floor interior is of 20th-century design. The building was originally constructed as a speculative venture.