Post Office Shop And Tigh-Na-Barr, Easter Balmoral

The Post Office Shop and Tigh-Na-Barr in Easter Balmoral is a two-storey, gabled building dating from 1864, featuring a single-storey wing at right angles to the rear, creating an L-shaped plan. It is constructed from squared and coursed granite, with a base course that has polished dressings.

On the east elevation, the building has four bays with a rounded corner on the outer right. The post office and shop occupy two bays on the right, with a window to the left and a door to the right. Above the window is an armorial panel displaying the Royal Arms and the legend 'By appointment'. The door is part-glazed with pilastered jambs and a two-pane fanlight, while the first-floor window above breaks the eaves in a gabled dormer head. The curved corner bay is recessed and features a shop window, which is corbelled to a square above the lintel.

The broad outer bay of the house is advanced and gabled, with a window on each floor. To the right is a panelled door with a two-pane fanlight and a window above that also breaks the eaves in a gabled dormer head.

On the south elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay at the centre with blind windows, flanked by additional blind windows.

The north elevation features a curved corner bay on the outer left of the advanced gabled bay, with a window on each floor at the centre. There is a recessed single-storey wing with a timber gabled porch addition and a window to the right.

The west elevation has an advanced single-storey wing to the left with a step-battered chimney breast and blind arrowslits. There is a later lean-to that masks the bays to the right at ground level, while the gabled bay to the left has two first-floor windows.

The building features timber cross mullioned and transomed casement windows, as well as four-pane sash and case windows at the rear. It is topped with grey slates, scroll-bracketed skewputts, and raised ashlar coped skews. There are three coped gablehead stacks and one ridge stack, with a stone ridge.