[1] A two-storey, stuccoed brick Victorian Italianate post office with a corner clock tower/campanile, and a corrugated iron clad roof.

Openings to the windows and doors have heavily moulded arched lintels and quoins are expressed by grooved mock ashlar jointing.

[1] As a substantial public building the Maitland Post Office is an exemplar of the Victorian Italianate style, incorporating a corner tower of considerable land mark value.

[1] Maitland Post Office was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 17 December 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

[1] The tower and asymmetrical facade impart considerable architectural presence to the narrow street and give the building landmark qualities.

As a prominent and attractive civic building, the Maitland Post Office is considered to be significant to the community's sense of place.

It is also representative of the Victorian Italianate style and more specifically the group of Italianate post offices designed by the Government Archite[1] This Wikipedia article was originally based on Maitland Post Office, entry number 01313 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 2 June 2018.