James Sheriff's Bridge Of Alford Stores And Post Office, Bridge Of Alford

James Sheriff's Bridge of Alford Stores and Post Office is a former shop and lodgings built around 1885. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features five bays, highlighted by a prominent gabled south elevation. The structure is made of squared and droved granite courses, with coped, shouldered skews, plain margins, and projecting cills on the windows.

The south elevation has a three-bay gable end, with a central two-leaf timber panelled door that includes a letterbox fanlight and a plain shield above a roundel. This is flanked by plain rectangular window openings. At the gablehead, there is a semicircular-arched window with a projecting keystone. The apex is adorned with a large stone spur finial that supports an ornate cast-iron weather-vane.

The north elevation is obscured by an adjoining building. The east elevation is largely intact up to wallhead height, displaying irregular fenestration on the ground floor and timber panelled doors in the fourth and fifth bays. The west elevation is partially obscured on the right by the adjoining Donbank and also features irregular fenestration on the left.

The interior of the building is currently vacant and was destroyed by fire around 1970.