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Detached five-bay two-storey house/post office, built c.1830, having a timber shopfront attached to the west end, c.1900. Pitched slate roof with three rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Wet dash rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth and raised rendered block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and rendered reveals having one-over-one pane timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered jambs, plain glass overlight and replacement glazed timber door. Limestone step to road. Square-headed window opening to shopfront having rendered stallriser with three fixed pane windows with timber mullions over. Square-headed door opening to the west side of shopfront having plain glass overlight and original timber double doors. Shopfront to east end comprising pilasters (with inset panels) with console brackets over supporting timber fascia having moulded timber cornice over with dentil blocks. Simple script to fascia reading ‘’HORSELEAP POST OFFICE’. Road fronted to the south of the main Dublin to Galway road.
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