as a large panelled timber cabinet at the top of the stairs. The original planning on the first floor has been altered in places through the partial removal of walls and the insertion of new door openings. The extension north along Cronulla Street, was added in the 1970s. It housed a post office box lobby, with two open frontages on either side of a brick screen. This screen was surfaced in similar brick to that on the original building, and seemed intended as a link. The screen has since been removed. This addition has boxed eaves that conceal its metal decking roof. The eaves are fronted by a crimped metal-skinned fascia about 1.6 m deep. This lines up with the main cornice above the original postal hall and one of the projecting courses of the 1924 rusticated brick piers. The soffit in this extension is cement sheet or similar and the walls are rendered and face brick. Key areas/elements The key elements of the post office are its: Cronulla Street (east) elevation Intact interior of the original quarters and timber stair Condition The overall condition of the building is fair, due to the size of and limited compatibility of the extension at the north end, and the infilling of the original porches. The upstairs of the building (quarters) is extremely intact, the remainder of the building, interior and exterior, displays a lower level of intactness. Original fabric The surviving original fabric of the building consists of: Structural frame: concrete footings and piers, the latter clad in brick. Steel box framed roof on newer north wing, with metal deck cladding and fascia. Timber roof frame on original building. Windows to the original building are timber framed, and those to the later north wing are aluminium framed. External walls: dark fired red face brick in stretcher bond with stucco mouldings, course lines and cornices. The frontal base coursing is cement rendered. Internal walls: timber (stud) framed walls with plasterboard cladding. Walls of first floor quarters are fibrous plaster or lath on plaster. Floor: timber floor framing in original post office building. Concrete flooring in the north wing. Ceiling: suspended ceiling form in retail areas and in the later wing. Lath and plaster or fibrous plaster in upstairs quarters. Other ceilings are plasterboard. Roof: timber framed, clad in Marseilles-pattern terracotta tile (original building). Steel box frame, crimped metal decking as cladding and fascia