Post Office And Hyde Park Delivery Office

This building comprises a post office and Hyde Park delivery office, dating to 1906. It is constructed of fine smooth orange-red brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar and carved stone details, and features bronze fittings on the doors, post box, and stamp sales area. The building has a two-story, three-by-three bay front facing Woodhouse Street, with an angled corner entrance bay on the right. To the rear lies an eight-bay, single-story range serving as a delivery office and service buildings. The architectural style is Baroque Revival, incorporating a plinth and quoins.

The right side of the front facade features paired four-panel doors with bronze fittings, a small-pane fanlight, and a pilastered surround with carved lettering designating "ER VII" on the left and "1906" on the right. Above the doors is a segmental window, surmounted by a parapet with carved scrolls and swags. To the left of the entrance, a panelled door is accompanied by an eight-pane overlight in an eared architrave with a keystone. The following bays contain small-pane sashes in similar surrounds, with the rightmost window incorporating a postage stamp sales panel below a three-light window featuring ramped mullions that frame an original posting box set into the wall.

The first floor features a sash window in an eared architrave to the left, flanked by pilasters; the left pilaster extends the full height of the building, while the right pilaster rises from sill level to the brick bay-width parapet. Two windows are set under deep eaves, incorporating scrolled wrought-iron gutter brackets. A three-light window with Ionic columns, an entablature, and a deep segmental pediment enclosing a plaque sits on the right, topped with a stepped gable. Large brick and stone corniced stacks are present at the left and right corners, with paired stacks at the rear.

The left return features a three-bay main block, mirroring the front facade. Set back are two bays, punctuated by small-pane windows and shallow segmental gables. Five three-light windows illuminate the delivery offices, with segmental arches above the windows, a door, and two tall windows in a gable. The right return has a post office block with a door in a stone keyed architrave, a three-light window with a long keystone, and above, flanking pilasters and a brick parapet. An original moulded rainwater pipe runs centrally along the front and left return. The delivery office portion has paired doors with overlights and four small-pane windows, along with two ventilators to the ridge.

The interior has not been inspected.