POST OFFICE" is in red lettering. The front sunhood has a metal sheet shingle roof and is supported by four oversized painted cast cement brackets. Timber slats enclose the subfloor along the rear wall. Decorative metal grilles to sub floor vents. Timeline of the building 1875: First post office opened. 1895: Application made for a subdivision for a School of Arts reserve from the Post and Telegraph site. 1935: The post office constructed with the retention of elements of the 1875 timber post office at the rear. 1957: Construction of neighbouring Commonwealth Bank. It is likely that during this time the east wing mailroom addition was constructed and telegraph facilities relocated to the new Ingham Exchange built in the same year. The works involved the removal of the original sunhood, windows, door and timber steps in the former east elevation. The new roof appears to have been constructed at a higher pitch but general detailing associated with the original gable, verandah and piers is matched. c.1995: Addition of steel-framed skillion structure at the rear (south) lined with fibre cement weatherboards on a concrete slab. The area provided storage for bikes, a forklift and a loading dock accessible to the mailroom. c.1995: Refurbishment of the postal retail area with standard Australia Post livery. Heritage listing The significant components of Ingham Post Office include the main original 1935 building component. The heritage listing does not incorporate the later post-1957 east wing, the timber and metal-framed non-original additions to the rear of the building, the brick exchange buildings located to the rear of the property, nor the tall steel-framed telecommunications tower. Ingham Post Office was listed on the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 August 2012 having satisfied the following criteria. Criterion A: Processes Ingham Post Office was constructed in 1935 to a design by the Commonwealth Department of the Interior under Horace Mackennal. It is one of many small to medium-sized single-storey post offices designed and built throughout Queensland during the interwar period to service its towns and regional centres; it was also expanded in the 1950s when the area's sugar cane industry underwent an expansionist phase. The post office was built on the site of the former 1875 post and telegraph office, and sections of the earlier timber-framed structure may be retained on the south side of the building. The post office, with the original 1935 component still discernible and largely