Post Office

The building is a post office dating from 1904-5, designed by John Rutherford. It is constructed of red brick with Portland ashlar dressings and a pitched tile roof. The building exhibits group value, forming a prominent feature alongside numbers 1 to 6 South Terrace, numbers 37 to 41 (consecutive), number 40A, and number 41A.

The architectural style is broadly symmetrical, with a curved corner entrance crowned by an ashlar parapet and a green copper dome with a finial. The corner entrance features a door with a semi-circular fanlight, flanked by blocked Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature with a pulvinated frieze, against which are placed blocked Ionic half-columns taking simple consoles supporting a moulded stone hood. The words "Post Office" are displayed in brass lettering above the entrance. The first floor features four narrow sashes with glazing bars separated by Ionic pilasters that support the full eaves entablature with a modillion cornice and blocking course. The corner bay is flanked by two bays with Portland ashlar quoins, each topped with open pediments containing modillions. The ground floor windows have stone aprons, moulded architraves, triple keys, and segmental pediments. The first floor windows have moulded sills, shouldered architraves, and segmental cornices with triple keys.

The South Street elevation mirrors the design at the opposite end. Between these ends, on the ground floor, is a large sash window within a segmental arch, containing letter boxes; above it are six sashes aligned with a continuous moulded sill and separated by Ionic pilasters. A secondary elevation features three sashes and a door with fanlight, all with moulded sills, architraves, and triple keystones. Above these are eight sashes with glazing bars, featuring moulded sills but plain ashlar surrounds. The end bay of this elevation is accentuated by Portland quoins and a parapet above the eaves entablature, topped by a door in a moulded architrave with a pediment and a single first-floor window with a moulded architrave and triple keystone.

Inside, a war memorial inscription, designed by Thomas Hardy in 1920, is present. A later Neo-Georgian extension on the west side is not included as part of the listed building.