Echo Office Building
ECHO OFFICE BUILDING, RICHMOND HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140113
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Echo Office Building
- Statutory Address:
- ECHO OFFICE BUILDING, RICHMOND HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140113
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Echo Office Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- ECHO OFFICE BUILDING, RICHMOND HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ECHO OFFICE BUILDING, RICHMOND HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 08686 91316
Details
The following buildings shall be added:-
BOURNEMOUTH
SZ0891 RICHMOND HILL
768-/23/10008 Echo Office Building
GV II
Offices. Built 1932 by Seal and Hardy as offices for the "Bournemouth Echo". Steel-framed, the main elevations faced in "Monks Park Bath Stone". Rectangular plan. Art Deco style. Main front block of 2 storeys with central mezzanine floor, sloping from left to right down Richmond Hill. 3:1:1:1:1:1:3-fenestration, with horizontal glazing bars to metal windows, the central bays being brought successfully forward and upwards to culminate in central tower. The windows are set in recessed panels with curved pilasters, those to bays flanking tower being set in vertical recessed panels. Tower has clasped pilasters and 3 vertical strips of windows including central strip with Art Deco chevrons. Flat-roofed canopy, stepped down hill, is set above ground floor with plainer fenestration, central doorway with channelled architrave and doorway at corner with Albert Road which has similar 4-window return including rounded corner bay. Interior noted as including Art Deco cornicing and stairhall with glazed tile dado and open-well staircase with steel handrail and mid-rails swept down to short newel. A notable example of Art Deco offices, recalling the contemporary work of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners.
Listing NGR: SZ0868691316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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