Post Office

The Post Office, located at Nos. 36 and 38 Wheelgate in Malton, was built around 1910. It features red brick in Flemish bond on an ashlar plinth, with orange-red brick quoin strips and dressings. The entrance has an ashlar doorcase with a timber hood, and the building has a timber eaves cornice, coped gables, and brick stacks at both ends and the center of its tiled mansard roof. Designed in the Domestic Revival style, it is two stories with an attic and has a five-window front.

The central entrance consists of sunk-panel double doors with a patterned overlight, set within a fasciated architrave and topped with a modillioned flat hood that projects on large foliate console brackets. To the right, there is a segment-arched tripartite sash window, with the center light interrupted by a stepped-up panel that includes a segment-headed brass posting box. To the left, there are two 12-pane sash windows beneath keyed segmental arches. The first-floor windows are also 12-pane sashes, featuring stone sills and aprons. The building has a moulded projecting eaves cornice with mutules and retains its original rainwater goods at each end.

In the attic, flat-topped dormers flank three gabled dormers, each with an unequal 9-pane sash window beneath a segmental pediment. Inside, the lobby entrance doors are half-glazed and panelled with brass fittings. The postal hall on the right, divided by a later inserted counter, still has original directory racks and a moulded dado rail, with the original counter surviving at the rear, now closed off. A built-in brass letter box is located behind the front window, and there is a half-cylindrical metallic waste bin to the left of the door. The ceiling features a mutule cornice and is coffered with moulded beams. The Post Office was offered for sale at the time of the listing review in 1990.