the upper verandah. This verandah floor was profiled by a frieze running across through the breakfront and then on around the base of the clock tower. The roof was converted to a transverse gable form with the breakfront across it, balanced asymmetrically by a gabled dormer vent. The largest roof feature, though, was the new lantern, an octagonal, heavily layered design with an ogival metal-clad roof and weather-vane finial. A gabled parapet terminated the roof at the west end, and below that was a bay repeating the central bays on the breakfront and counterbalancing the mass concentrated at the other end of the elevation. The early chimneys appear to have been removed. The five-storey clock tower of 1898 is separated from the ground floor by a broad, low pediment moulded into the frieze on each elevation. Inside each is the inscription "A1898D", the year of the tower's completion. Above the first floor is another frieze, this time plain, and a storey of rusticated stuccoed banding, punctuated by a single vent window. Above that comes the clock face storey, completely plain apart from the clock, and above that is the lookout, more Romanesque than Baroque in its flavour, with colonnettes, a roundel balustrade, parapet gables to east and west, and a four-sided metal-clad extruded pyramid spire, patterned in descending chevrons and fronted on the Gill street side by an equilaterally triangular pediment with circular vent. The building is two storeys with a five-storey tower with some single-storey additions to the rear. Condition With regard to subsequent (post 1898) works and changes, the early 1900s included changes/additions to the rear and internal works. The next phase of additions and alterations may have been for larger telephone exchange accommodation in the 1920s or 1930s, and the sheds to the rear, documented in 1937, were primarily for servicing the telephone network. A double-height lean-to verandah has been added to the sing-bay pavilion at the west end of the Gill Street elevation. This appears to have a mixed frame of timber posts and steel tubing, and the balustrades appear to have been filled in with cement sheeting. The long "bunkhouse" chain of service rooms behind the early design appears to have gone, replaced by a shorter two-storey trailing wing, running back along the Deane Street elevation behind the clock tower. By the mid 1990s the post office had a remodelled retail area, lunch room, locker