Marrickville Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 274A Marrickville Road, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 August 2012. History Marrickville Post Office was constructed by Messrs Graham and Mercer for £2,197 and opened in April 1891. Its construction followed the late nineteenth century establishment or shift of the main business and commercial district of Marrickville to this area of the suburb, in turn following the construction of the tramline along Marrickville Road to Illawarra Road in 1881. The original building included a post office, residence and telegraph office. Extensive alterations were made to the rear single-storey portion in c.1960, and an addition was also built to the rear of this wing. The post office is now located towards the rear of the building and a café occupies the original postal hall. Built in 1891, extensive alterations were made to the rear single-storey portion in c.1960. Description Marrickville Post Office is at 274A Marrickville Road, Marrickville, on the corner of Silver Street, comprising the whole of Lot 1 Section 2 DP1943 and Lot 1 DP780055. The site is on a flat and gently tapering. The building frontage to Marrickville Road is two-storied with loosely Renaissance articulation: pilasters on each side of a central doorway on the ground floor, two arched windows either side, and a reproduction of this pattern in the five first floor windows. The first floor was treated as an astylar piano nobile/attic. The pattern was inverted on the Silver Street side, facing northwest, where two entrances were placed at either end of the double-storeyed section's street front, with two bays containing a pair of arched windows placed between each entrance. A pilaster separates the two bays of windows. It is possible that the Silver Street elevation may not have been the side elevation as intended. The rear doorway is flanked by piers, rusticated on the upper level and treated as pilasters on the ground floor, in a distinctly separate bay. This may be an addition or alteration, but was possibly intended as the base of a corner tower. A rear tower placement was not usual in James Barnet designs, but nearby Leichhardt Post Office (1887-8), has a rear-sited tower along its major roadside elevation, rather than a corner tower at its main public entrance. The upper level to Silver Street therefore appears asymmetrically, as the