
Wentworth, NSW, 2648
S 34° 06.398 E 141° 55.141
54H E 584764 N 6225639
A Licensed Post Office operating within a historic 157 year old post office in a small riverside town.
Waymark Code: WMFQXX
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 11/20/2012
Views: 15
The Wentworth Licensed Post Office is located at 60 Darling Street, and provides a full range of services, with post office boxes available as well as passport business. It is open Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Saturday from 9:00 AM to 12 Noon, closed Sunday.
Moorna Post Office opened on 22 February 1855 and was renamed Wentworth Post Office in 1860. The Post Office is an ornate single storey brick structure displaying a series of double round headed windows. These windows are hooded with stilted arches with keystones and divided by doric style pilasters.
The building corners and entranceway are bordered with tall doric pilasters. The entranceway is highlighted by a large romanesque arch with keystone surrounding a moulded panel. A plain parapet wall sits above a mouldered string course adorned with dentils. A side awning is supported by chamfered posts and decorated with a timber criss-cross frieze.
The post office is one of the most prominent structures in Wentworth and importantly compliments the surrounding heritage items of Darling Street.
Wentworth is a small border town in the far south west of the state of New South Wales, Australia. It lies at the confluence of Australia's two most important rivers, the Darling and the Murray, the latter forming the border with the state of Victoria to the south. The border with the state of South Australia lies approximately 100 km to the west.