moderate level of intactness and a fair level of condition given changes in the program and the age of the building. Original fabric Original elements of the building include: Structural frame: reinforced concrete footings (underpinned later). Timber flooring and roof frames, load-bearing brick walls. External walls: rendered brick. Internal walls: brick rendered in hard plaster and painted. Other walls are timber frame that are clad in plasterboard and painted. Floor: timber framed. Polished timber within the café tenancy. Carpeted to the retail area and the rear office flooring is vinyl. Vinyl tiled lunch room and storage areas; ceramic tiled wet areas. Ceiling: acoustic ceiling tiles (café area); in the retail space and back office it has a suspended ceiling with aluminium frame and inset acoustic tiles, flush fluorescent lighting mounts. Upstairs the ceilings are lath and plaster. Roof: timber frame, clad in cement tile. Heritage listing Marrickville Post Office was listed on the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 August 2012 having satisfied the following criteria. Criterion A: Processes Marrickville Post Office of 1891, which originally incorporated a post office, telegraph office and residence, has been an important local postal building for almost 120 years. It helps demonstrate the establishment of this area as the main business and commercial focus of the suburb of Marrickville following the construction of the tramline along Marrickville Road in 1881. The post office is also one of the last designed under James Barnet's direction, before the arrival of Walter Vernon as new government architect. Criterion D: Characteristic values Marrickville Post Office is an example of: a post office and telegraph office with quarters (second generation typology 1870–1929) Italianate Style the work of architect James Barnet Typologically, Marrickville Post Office is a medium-sized post office of the late nineteenth century that incorporated a post office and telegraph office with quarters. The building overall has a moderate level of intactness, including externally, with works concentrated towards the rear. More recently, Australia Post operations have also contracted in the building, with adaptation to café use occurring. These works retained much of the first floor internal planning, with much of the original fabric intact in these spaces. The café occupies most of the ground floor of the two-storey portion of the building, including using these spaces as a dining area, kitchen and toilets. Stylistically and architecturally, the building fits neatly into contemporary retail architecture on its Marrickville Road