The Post Office, 3 Scarva Street, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3DB

A symmetrical three-storey three-bay former Post Office, now sorting office, in Neo-Georgian style; built 1939 to designs by T.F.O Rippingham and located to the north side of Scarva Street in Banbridge town centre. Rectangular plan with full-height return, single-storey office extension to north. Pitched pantile roof with dentilled cornice, projecting eaves and broken pediment to gables. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on projecting eaves with cast-iron downpipes and hoppers. Walling is Flemish-bonded rustic brick on a grey ashlar granite base with continuous string-course at impost level to ground floor; stone frieze punctuated by drop motif. Windows are replacement uPVC set almost flush with the wall with granite sills throughout; round-headed in brick recesses to ground floor. The principal elevation faces south and is five openings wide to each floor. To centre is a double-leaf four-panelled timber door with brass door furniture; in granite architrave with twisted rope moulding; surmounted by plain architrave, Greek key cornice and semi-circular uPVC fanlight. The west elevation has a flat-roofed stairwell extension to left lit by small rectangular windows to north. Round-headed blind opening to second floor with projecting brick base and piers on a corbel stone; uPVC window to first floor; replacement timber doors and window to right at ground floor. The north (rear) elevation has a full-height return to centre one window wide to east and west elevations; left and right bays are two windows wide. Abutted at ground floor by the single-storey office extension with double-leaf timber doors surmounted by transom light and two windows; west elevation is five uPVC windows wide. The east elevation has round-headed infill window to second floor with projecting brick base and piers on a first floor keyblock. Setting Street-facing and situated directly west of the town hall (HB17/06/009). Tarmacadam yard to rear enclosed by modern metal gates to west and by timber-panelled gate with pedestrian entrance to east. Roof: Pantile Walling: brick Windows: uPVC RWG: Cast-iron