Former Post-Office, including gates to service yard

The building is a former post office, including cast-iron gates and railings to a service yard, dating from the Edwardian period. It is built of glazed brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs concealed behind high parapets, designed in a flamboyant Edwardian free style. The main elevation to Deiniol Road presents a balanced asymmetry of 1-1-3-3-3-1 bays, with 2-bay returns and a 3-bay wing to Ffordd Gwynedd. The façade is articulated with a deep plinth, a moulded string course over the ground floor, a plain sill band to the second floor, a projecting modillion cornice, and a ribbed and panelled blocking course. Advanced bays at each end are emphasized by steep pediments, with ashlar to the quoins and the ground floor; tripartite windows are recessed within shallow archways. Upper windows are tiered, featuring mullioned and transomed windows with scrolled aprons and modillion cornices to the first floor, and stone mullioned windows with panelled aprons and modillions to the sill above. A balanced bay faces the Ffordd Gwynedd elevation, flanking an angled corner containing a segmentally arched main entrance with sinuous pilasters capped by ball finials. Above the entrance is a canted oriel window and a cartouche in the parapet. A secondary entrance is on the right, with paired windows above. A simpler, 3-bay wing is stepped down to the right. The Deiniol Road elevation features an advanced central section of 3 bays, with a doorway to the left, an arched window at the centre, and a mullioned and transomed window to the right. Mullioned and transomed windows are on the first floor, with outer windows having deep segmental heads; the second floor has plainer windows. Elsewhere, ground floor windows are mullioned and transomed, while upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes in lugged stone architraves, with segmental arches and keystones to the first floor and plain architraves to the second floor. The return to the left-hand side has a side entrance in an ornate tripartite architrave, inscribed with “County Court” above the doorway. The cast-iron gates to the service yard feature star motifs above the dog and upper bars. The interior has been altered with ground-floor subdivision and suspended ceilings, potentially concealing original plasterwork. Upper floor layouts are better preserved, with original detail remaining. A section of the main staircase remains, and there is a good secondary staircase at the southeast end, accessed originally from the side entrance to the court offices; this is a cantilevered stair with a swept rail, plain iron balusters, and turned posts.