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Usher's Quay Post Office

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Usher's Quay Post Office
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Terraced two-bay four-storey house, built c.1720, adapted c.1780, and having mid-nineteenth century shopfront to street elevation. Now in use as post office with accommodation over. Hipped slate roof, set perpendicular to street, with red brick chimneystack having clay chimney pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods, partially hidden behind rebuilt red brick parapet having granite coping. Red brick laid in Flemish bond to walls, some cast-iron wall ties. Square-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs, painted masonry sills and two-over-two pane timber sash windows. Shopfront comprising panelled pilasters supporting fluted pedimented consoles, dentillated cornice and fascia, surrounding square-headed window openings having timber risers and timber framed windows, flanking central door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door with plain overlight. Square-headed door opening added c.1930 to west of shopfront, with timber panelled door and bipartite overlight.

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