Survey Data
Reg No
21003242
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Post office
In Use As
Post office
Date
1910 - 1915
Coordinates
83832, 114440
Date Recorded
02/08/1999
Date Updated
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Description
Attached five-bay two-storey post office, built 1911, with three-bay single-storey extension to right hand side and three-storey extension to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with hipped artificial slate roof to rear extension and parapet to right hand side extension with tin ventilator. Roughcast rendered walls and limestone cladding with carved limestone cornice and carved detail over ground floor cornice. Confronted volutes form decorative centre to parapet, ovoidal plain shield framed by cartouches on façade below first floor windows, ornate wrought-iron projecting brackets to lantern over former door, 'Tralee Post Office' carved in frieze over ground floor. Cement rendered walls to extensions. Timber top hung outward opening windows with moulded limestone sills and reveals. Moulded render sills to right hand side extension. Timber panelled door with toplight.