The Post Office (left hand building) is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 2003. Post office. 3 related planning applications.

The Post Office (left hand building)

WRENN ID
scarred-tallow-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 November 2003
Type
Post office
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Post Office, Bath stone ashlar facade with slate roof, parapet and ornate cornice. Three storeys, 5-bays, Edwardian Baroque style. Cornice has modillions, an egg and dart decorated course and acanthus roundel at either end. Second floor windows have moulded stone surrounds to 9-pane horned sashes. First floor 12-pane horned sashes in moulded, shouldered surrounds with big triple keystones extending up into bases of open curved pediments. Upper floor windows have moulded sills. First floor band with POST OFFICE inscribed, over the large keystones of the ground floor openings. Four 12-pane sash windows and door in second bay from left, all in bolection-moulded surrounds with triple keystones. Windows have an apron panel below the sills. Door is beneath a 6-pane fixed overlight, and has a granite step. The second bay from right has a brass post box set into the wall below window. The right hand window was a door in old photographs, with stone open pediment on scroll consoles to doorcase, and letter box was in middle window.

Ground floor altered.

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