The Post Office

The Post Office is a monumental three-storey building with a slightly curving five-bay front, arranged in a 1-3-1 pattern with projected outer bays. The ground floor is constructed of ashlar stone, featuring a moulded plinth and arched windows in the outer bays that are recessed within arches, complete with large curved keystones. The plinth moulding steps back, and there are stone sills. The central section has a sash window on each side of the door, with small-paned windows set in recessed bolection-moulded surrounds, which include apron panels below the sills and triple keystones.

The central doorcase, made of Portland stone, is prominently bolection moulded and features panelled piers beneath richly carved brackets that support an open segmental pediment. The doorcase includes a scroll keystone that rises to a pediment cartouche monogrammed 'GáVáR', flanked by carved cornucopia. The original door has been replaced by a window. Above the raised band, the upper floors are built of red brick with flush quoins in ashlar on the outer bays, ashlar window surrounds, a large modillion cornice, and a parapet that steps up over the outer bays.

The first floor has 24-pane sash windows, with the central three featuring architraves, flat cornices on brackets, and moulded sills embraced by architraves. The outer windows are similar but more elaborate, showcasing bow-fronted apron panels, triple keystones, and open pediments on carved festooned brackets. The upper floor contains three 16-pane sash windows in the centre, with architraves that break into the base of the upper cornice, triple keystones, and apron panels. The outer bays are adorned with ornate bulls-eye windows featuring draped festoons.

On the John Street elevation, there is a one-window bay that repeats the motifs of the outer bays of the west front, along with a concave southwest angle, all constructed in ashlar. The ground floor features a convex bay window with a bolection moulded sash window. There is also a 1966 addition.

At the north end, there is a utilitarian red brick structure and a screen wall that includes two large ashlar corniced gatepiers topped with ball finials, along with panelled double gates. The brick wall on each side is now rendered and features stone coping.