Old Post Office, 108 High Street, Kinross

Dated 1841. 2-storey, 3-bay Clasically-detailed former office with corniced and pedimented doorpiece flanked by canted bays, and splayed angle to rear; lower 2-storey, single bay, crowstep-gabled former Post Office (probably of same date) projecting at NW with Clock Tower in re-entrant angle (see separate listing). Grey sandstone ashlar with snecked rubble, some squared, to sides and rear; ashlar dressings, some droved; Post Office red sandstone with contrasting grey ashlar dressings. Banded base course and moulded corniced eaves course. Stone mullions to tri-partite canted bays at ground floor.

PRINCIPAL (E) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation with panelled timber door to centre bay below incised date panel; flanked by canted tri-partite windows to outer bays. Regular rectangular fenestration close to eaves at 1st floor, with blind centre window.

REAR (N) ELEVATION: projecting Post Office bay with single rectangular window to each floor in crowstepped gable to N and on return to S.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative rainwater hopper.

INTERIOR: some areas with plain cornices, timber dadoes and panelled reveals retained. Dog-leg staircase with decorative cast iron balusters and timber handrail.