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Carrick-on-Shannon Post Office — Saint George's Terrace

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Carrick-on-Shannon Post Office — Saint George's Terrace
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Detached three-bay single-storey Baroque Revival style post office, built in 1907, with six-bay extension to east, added c.1960 and extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with skylights and cast-iron vents concealed by parapet wall with decorative cartouche bearing date. Rendered chimneystacks. Ashlar sandstone facade with rusticated bands to pilasters and lower courses. Dentil cornice supporting parapet with the words 'Post Office' carved into frieze. Square-headed tripartite window openings with yellow brick surrounds and timber top-opening windows. Sandstone doorcase with open-bed pediment, banded pilasters and lugged-and-kneed architrave having glazed timber door. Red brick to rear elevation with segmental-headed window, abutted by flat-roofed extension.

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