New Ross Post Office — Charles Street

Detached two-bay single-storey post office, designed 1904; dated 1904; opened 1905, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey side elevations; three-bay single-storey return block (north). Pitched (west) or hipped (east) slate roofs behind parapets; pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (north), ridge tiles, red brick chimney stack having cut-limestone "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice capping supporting ribbed terracotta tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron hoppers and square profile downpipes. Red brick Flemish bond walls on drag edged dragged limestone ashlar base on moulded cushion course on drag edged dragged cut-limestone plinth with cut-limestone "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on frieze below parapet having cut-limestone "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed coping; red brick English bond walls (north) on chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (west) with drag edged cut-limestone sill course, cut-limestone mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround supporting cut-limestone lintels framing timber casement windows. Pair of square-headed window openings (east) with drag edged cut-limestone sill course, and cut-limestone lintels framing timber casement windows. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings (north) with cut-limestone chamfered flush sills, and red brick voussoirs framing mild steel panels over steel casement windows having square glazing bars. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.