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Detached Arts and Crafts style single-storey post office, built 1904, comprising gable-fronted block and attached wing with curved parapet, with sorting office and yard to rear. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, rooflights to sorting hall roof, and decorative cast-iron rainwater goods. Carved limestone fractables to gable front with steps at mid slope and at apex enclosing rectangular cartouche plaque with curved stone pediment. Curved coping to parapet of wing. Red brick walls in Flemish bond with red sandstone bands and grey limestone plinth. Gable rests on stone cornice and signage band with 'Belturbet Post Office' in raised letters. Tripartite sandstone mullion-and-transom window positioned off centre in gable with timber single-pane windows and two-pane overlights with flush limestone sill. Paired multiple-paned windows to wing in sandstone surround to front and side elevations. Decorative free-form carved surround to entrance door with squat blocked columns on high pedestals supporting cornice and scrolled entablature with raised lettering '1904 A.D.' flanked by spherical finials. Replacement timber sheeted door. Segmental brick arches to four window openings in sorting hall with multiple-pane steel windows having concealed tilting vents and flush granite sills. Further window openings with multiple-pane sash and casement windows to rear and side elevations. Pedestrian gate to side passage. Brick boundary walls and piers having ironwork double gates to rear yard. Fronting directly on to street.
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