18-20 High Street, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 1BQ

An attached three-storey classically fronted brick former post office, built 1905, located on north of High Street. Rectangular on plan, three-openings-wide, facing south with central pediment breakfront; lower return to rear flanked to left by single-storey flat-roofed annex and to right by two-storey flat-roofed addition; two-storey pitched-roofed extension to rear of return. Hipped natural slate roof, angled blue/black hip tiles, ogee-profile uPVC gutters. Walling is Flemish-bonded red brick over splayed plinth with stone dressings over banded rusticated stone ground floor (principal elevations only, other elevations are brick without ornamentation). Windows are either square-headed 1/1 timber sashes or 1/1 casements (except where otherwise stated). Principal (south) elevation has central pedimented breakfront with dressed limestone quoins above ground floor; moulded entablature parapet coping. Ground floor has banded rustication over chamfered plinth with projecting moulded cornice over frieze above, windows are replacement teak casements, central window is widened with plastic fascia over. First floor has moulded stone sill course over dressed apron-level platband, moulded entablatures above, square-headed painted timber 6/1 sash, lugged moulded stone architraves with keyblocks; breakfront has central sash flanked by 4/1 sashes in dressed limestone surround with keyblocks, central window surmounted by segmental pediment on carved brackets. Second floor has diminished square-headed painted timber 6/1 sashes; breakfront has three windows with moulded architraves and shared sills. Limestone triangular pediment has carved oak leaves for spandrel decoration and central cartouche of “E VII” cipher encircled with Order of the Garter, surmounted by Tudor crown West elevation second floor has four casement windows, first and ground floors each two windows to left side. Rear (north) elevation is abutted by return; exposed section has single horizontal casement window with security bars to left. Return rear elevation is abutted by rear extension; exposed section has single sash window with security bars to second floor; right cheek has two sash windows per floor; left cheek is abutted by two-storey addition, exposed section has two windows. Extension rear gable is rendered and blank; left cheek is entirely abutted by boundary wall, right cheek has variety of windows and single door. East elevation is abutted by neighbouring building, exposed section is blank. Setting:- Bank is street fronted, opening directly only High Street at south; tarmac parking lot to rear, tarmac driveway to west. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Red brick with stone dressings Windows: Timber RWG: uPVC