General Post Office

The General Post Office, built in 1886 and designed by architect Sir Henry Tanner for the Post Office, is a two-storey building with attics, constructed of ashlar and featuring slate hipped roofs. The front of the building is almost symmetrical, with a central block that has five windows. The centre projects slightly, and the ground floor has rectangular openings supported by wide banded pilasters, which hold up a continuous entablature at the first floor level.

The first floor features round-arch windows with keyblocks and a continuous moulded impost, with the central window flanked by paired pilasters. Above this, there is a segmental pedimented gable with a clock face, flanked by two small wooden pedimented gables. The building is topped with a balustraded parapet and a modillion cornice, and a steep-pitched hipped slate roof with a wooden bell-turret over the centre.

On either side of the central block are projecting two-storey pavilions that have ground floor entrances, a wide modillion cornice, and steep-pitched hipped roofs above the main roof level. Flanking these are two lower wings that are stepped back, featuring three and two windows respectively, with mansard and hipped roofs.