St Andrews Post Office

This is a post office with residential accommodation above, built around 1790 to 1793. It was designed by John Palmer as part of the unfinished St James's Square development, on land leased from Sir Peter Rivers Gay. It stands on St James's Street, one of four diagonal routes leading to St James's Square, and is an example of Picturesque landscape principles applied to urban design.

The front of the building is limestone ashlar, painted up to the first floor sill band. The rear is a mix of ashlar and rubble, under an artificial slate, double-pile mansard roof. The roof features a coped party wall to the left, with two rebuilt stacks in brick and ashlar. A rear staircase is present.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The first floor has three grouped plate glass sash windows with horns, set in splayed reveals and featuring a continuous wrought iron balconette. The second floor has similar windows in plain reveals, with a continuous stone sill. The ground floor has a large 20th-century plate glass window to the left and a door to the right. The door has two flush, two fielded panels, a single glazed panel, and a pennant step, all within a pedimented Doric doorcase with Doric pilasters. A double dormer window is present in the roof. A plinth, band course above the ground floor, and a sill band running continuously with the adjacent No.38 St James’s Square are also visible. The building has a moulded eaves cornice and a coped parapet. Two basement window openings are evident, now infilled with glass bricks. The rear elevation features plate glass sashes and 20th-century windows.

The interior has not been inspected. Historical records from Bath City Archives detail the property's land title and maps, documenting its connection to the St James's Square development.