Post Office, Ward Road, Dundee

This is a substantial, three-storey and attic, French Renaissance-detailed Head Post Office, originally designed by Walter Wood Robertson in 1898, with a later addition at Euclid Street in the earlier 20th century. The building occupies a large, angled site. Constructed primarily of grey and cream sandstone ashlar, the ground floor is banded, and it features a steeply-pitched slate roof.

The architectural detailing is elaborate. A deep base course rises to a cill course, with plain friezes to the ground and first floors. A consoled and dentilled balustraded parapet tops the building, featuring urn-finialled dies and aediculaed Royal arms with winged animal volutes to the Meadowside elevation. Bays are delineated by orders using banded pilasters with gabletted cartouches to the ground floor, mannered Ionic details to the first floor, and paired composite-capitalled half-columns to the second floor. Three-bay, rounded stair towers, each topped with a ball-finialled and oculaed Florentine dome, are situated at the angles of the building facing Constitution Road. A wrought-iron, finialled, and domed ridge ventilator with columned pediments is also present. Windows are timber, single, bi-, and tripartite, varying in design; ground-floor windows are round-headed with banded jambs, consoled moulded arches, and Doric mullions, while upper-floor windows are architraved and Doric-mullioned, keystoned and round-headed on the second floor. A bipartite parapet dormer with an aediculaed pediment is flanked by two single dormers on the Constitution Road elevation.

The Meadowside elevation is seven bays and near-symmetrical. The central, round-headed door has been blocked and converted into a window, flanked by Corinthian half-columns surmounted by winged female figures, with single windows to the left and right, and a similar pattern on the first and second floors, with a tripartite window at the centre. A bay to the outer right has a new doorway at ground floor, with tripartite windows to the slightly bowed upper floors. An angle bay to the outer left features a columned and pedimented door at ground floor, flanked by single windows, with three pilastered windows on the first (two blinded) and second floors.

The Constitution Road elevation is symmetrical, with five bays. The central five bays have a large window at ground floor, bipartites on the first and second floors, and three dormers. Angle bays to the left and right are similar to those on the Meadowside elevation. A single bay to the left return elevation features a large window at ground floor, bipartites on the first and second floors, and a pavilion roof.

The Euclid Street elevation is a four-storey, attic and basement block, with a five-bay layout and a further linking block to the right. It is constructed of red ashlar sandstone with a platform slate roof and a slate-hung attic. A keystoned and moulded doorcase is present on the left, and multi-pane metal windows are symmetrically arranged at all floors, with pilastrades at the main cornice on the second floor and pilasters on the third floor. The linking bay has a blocked door (now a window) on the ground floor, and windows on the upper floors, each with different architraves. There is a wallhead parapet. A three-storey, four-bay mid 20th century block is located to the far left.

The interior of the building was not inspected.