Clock on the Daily Telegraph Building, Fleet Street - 2022-09-10

The Daily Telegraph Building, also known as Peterborough Court, is an

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

office building with Egyptian decorations and a monumental colonnade

façade A façade () (also written facade) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loan word from the French (), which means ' frontage' or ' face'. In architecture, the façade of a building is often the most important aspect ...

, located at 135–141 Fleet Street,

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. The building was designed by Charles Ernest Elcock, after consulting with

Thomas S. Tait Thomas Smith Tait (18 June 1882 – 18 July 1954) was a Scottish modernist architect. He designed a number of buildings around the world in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles, notably St. Andrew's House (the headquarters of the Scottish ...

, and opened in 1928. The building is eight storeys tall and seven windows wide, and made of Portland stone. There is a large clock hanging above the street level. The building has been Grade II listed since 1983. It was originally the headquarters of the British newspaper ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was f ...

'', before the company moved out in the 1980s following the

Wapping dispute The Wapping dispute was a lengthy failed strike by print workers in London in 1986. Print unions tried to block distribution of ''The Sunday Times'', along with other newspapers in Rupert Murdoch's News International group, after production wa ...

. The newspaper's diary column was named "Peterborough" after the building until 2003. From 1991 to 2019 Peterborough Court was the European headquarters of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. In 2021 the building's owners, members of the Qatari royal family, announced plans to spend £90 million redeveloping the building.

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