General Post Office

The General Post Office, built around 1869, is a three-storey stone building designed in the Renaissance style. It features seven sash windows without glazing bars, set in moulded architraves with pediments supported by consoles, and panels of balusters below. A sill band is present at the second storey, and there is a moulded cornice at the first floor that breaks forward at the centre and ends, supported by lion-head brackets. The ground storey is rusticated and includes a Greek Key frieze. The central doorway has a plain rectangular fanlight above a six-panelled door. Additional architectural details include a plain frieze, a dentilled modillion eaves cornice, and an open balustrade. The building has a three-window return side facing St James's Street, which includes a two-storeyed wing with five windows on the left-hand side.