Post Office And Attached Railings

This is a post office, built around 1881. The exterior is ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof, featuring gable parapets, gables to the front and left, and ashlar stacks with decorative caps. There is also an ashlar and brick stack to the rear.

The building is two storeys high with a basement, and has a two-window front. A projecting bay on the left features a mullion and transom window with three plain sashes and coloured leaded lights, set under a dated tablet and drip course. To the right is a matching oriel cross-window, with the Royal Arms displayed above. The gables are ornamented with finials, and there is a louvred lookout with a finial.

The entrance is on the right, with steps leading to a 20th-century door and screen, recessed beneath a moulded semicircular arch with a drip course and decorative springers. To the left are paired cross-windows with Corinthian pilasters to their moulded architraves. A string course and interrupted frieze run along the front. The left returned side has two tiers of cross-windows under twin gables. Cast-iron gate and railings lead to the porch bay, which contains a six-panel door and mullioned overlight.

Inside, there is a dogleg staircase with cast-iron balusters and a moulded rail. On the first floor, there are architraves to windows and doors, skirting boards, and ceiling cornices. The ground floor has architraves to the windows and an obscured ceiling cornice. The cellar has brick lining, brick and flagstone floors, a brick vault, masonry to the front wall, and four-panel doors.