Waterford Post Office

Post office in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1870–1880

Terraced nine-bay four-storey granite ashlar Venetian Gothic building, dated 1876, on a corner site retaining original fenestration with four-bay four-storey side elevation to south-east having single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to ground floor. Originally in use as custom house and post office and now in use as post office and offices. Hipped slate roofs behind parapets with lead ridge tiles, granite ashlar chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Granite ashlar walls with cut-limestone dressings including courses to upper floors, and moulded projecting cornice on consoles having blocking course over to parapet. Polished pink granite colonettes to corner with carved Corinthian capital. Combination of pointed-arch and square-headed window openings to ground, to first and to second floors with cut-limestone sills, chamfered flush surrounds, and hood mouldings over. 1/1 timber sash windows with some fixed-pane timber windows having casement sections. Some quatrefoil window openings with cut-stone surrounds, hood mouldings over, and fixed-pane timber windows. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to top floor with cut-stone sills (forming sill course), and chamfered shouldered surrounds. 1/1 timber sash windows. Pointed-arch door opening in pointed-arch recess with cut-stone surround, diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors, timber date stone o

Type:
Post office

Period:
1870–1880

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.26°N, 7.11°W

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