Monaghan Post Office (Monaghan (Muineachán))

 post office, listed building / architectural heritage, 1908_construction

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Attached four-bay single-storey post office, built 1908, raised to two storeys in 1955 and having six-bay two-storey return to rear of c.1970. Single-storey outbuildings to rear. Middle bays project slightly to ground floor. Pitched slate roof hidden by projecting ashlar limestone parapet, with red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick Flemish bond walling to ground floor, with limestone band to import level, pilasters to each end of middle bays above sill level and having moulded sill, fascia and moulded cornice with dentils. Raised metal lettering 'Oifig an Phoist' to fascia. Ashlar plinth course to front. First floor has yellower brick and return has red brick. Square-headed window openings to first floor with alternating limestone and brick voussoirs, concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Ground floor openings have similar voussoirs to square-headed timber window to east bay having limestone sill, and segmental-arched tripartite timber windows to middle bays. Square-headed door opening with limestone block-and-start architrave, overlight, and timber panelled door. Outbuildings have lean-to slate roofs, red brick walls, square-headed openings with metal windows and timber battened doors.