Old Post Office

The Old Post Office is part of a three-storey block (i.e. 1-3 Bell Street), of red brick with yellow-brick sill bands and blue-brick impost bands, under a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. The angle of the building at the road junction is canted, and provides the visual focus for the shop entrance. This is recessed, flanked by 2-light plate glass shop windows facing each street, all framed by Tuscan pilasters and consoles supporting the cornice. The fascia is replaced. Facing Bell Street is a residential entrance in a panelled recess with doorcase similar to the shop-front detail. There is a panelled door, under a plain overlight, but its lower panels have been replaced by plain boarding. Windows are 2-pane sashes under shallow triangular heads, except for a 2-storey oriel window above the shop entrance, which has double sash windows in each storey, all lately renewed.

Inside the original shop fittings survive intact. They include 2 shop counters, behind which is a virtually complete set of shelves, and drawers, built around a simple fireplace. They are of varying sizes, and some of the shelves and turned supports. A half-lit door with coloured glass margin lights opens to the hallway of the residence, while a plainer panel door opens to a store room at the back.