The Daily Telegraph, February 1880

The costly new building rising in Fleet Street included premises for the Daily Telegraph.

They are on the south side of that thoroughfare, a short distance west of Salisbury-court and immediately adjoining the recently erected, handsome, red brick and granite block now used as the offices of the Daily Chronicle. The new structure is occupied as the advertisement and general business office of the Daily Telegraph. It is upwards of 70ft in height and has a frontage to Fleet Street of almost 30ft.

The main face of the elevation is in Portland stone, red and grey polished granite being freely introduced for ornamentation. The building contains four lofty storeys and attic with dormers. The third floor has a range of four arched windows, divided by red grante shafts and capitals. The whole of the old block of building on the north side of Fleet Street, forming Peterborough-court, which has formed the publishing and editorial offices of the Daily Telegraph for some years past, is intended to be taken down and an entirely new block erected.

The building, which will have a frontage to Fleet Street of about 60ft, rising to a height of between 70ft and 80ft, and when completed will form one of the most prominent features in the thoroughfare. At the west side of the frontage in Fleet Street there will be a private carriage entrance. The building is to extend to a depth of about 100ft southwards, the printing and publishing departments occupying and extensive area in the rear.

Messrs Arding, Bond & Buzzard, of Surrey, are the architects, and Mr W Herne, of Bayswater, is the builder.