Former Head Post Office

The former Head Post Office, built in 1905 and designed by N.T. Oldrive, is an impressive structure with later 20th-century alterations. It is constructed primarily of ashlar sandstone on the ground floor, with red brick and ashlar detailing above. The roof is covered with Welsh slate.

The building has two storeys and features a prominent central service tower with an ashlar parapet and diagonal buttresses. A triple-gabled roof characterises the south elevation, connecting to a taller, hipped-roofed rear range that runs parallel to the street frontage. The south elevation displays exaggerated Neo-classical detailing. The central entrance bay is marked by a wide doorway beneath a voussoired segmental arch where alternate voussoirs are advanced. An attenuated advanced keystone terminates at a boldly projecting pedimented hood, supported on elongated coupled brackets, with a compound keystone interrupting the hood mould and featuring stops. A window to the west has a central, tapered doorway interrupting the moulded cill, while the east window has an uninterrupted cill with later alterations and "POST OFFICE" carved in relief at the keystone level. Replacement 20th-century joinery is present in all ground floor openings. Stacked three-light windows are found on the first and second floors, with the first floor windows placed beneath deep flat heads and deep moulded drips. The mullions on the first floor are treated as tapering columns rising from corbels set into a moulded first floor band, where the ground floor ashlar work ends. Banded lower sections of the mullions align with the ashlar wall banding. Sash windows are present without glazing bars.

The second floor features Venetian windows with shouldered architraves and exaggerated hoods to the central lights, interrupted by attenuated keystones. These windows have six-over-six pane glazing bar sashes. Shallow two-light mullioned windows are set within the gables, featuring squat column mullions with cills and drip moulds aligned with the ashlar bands. The gables are topped with decorative finial structures, each incorporating a cartouche and miniature replicas of the ground floor hoods. A single-storey range to the rear, possibly the former sorting office, contains three-light glazing bar windows to each bay and two flat-roofed lanterns above the third and seventh bays.