The Daily Telegraph Building is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1983. Newspaper office. 12 related planning applications.
The Daily Telegraph Building
- WRENN ID
- tenth-obsidian-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1983
- Type
- Newspaper office
- Address
- The Daily Telegraph Building, 135-141, Fleet Street, City and County of the City of London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 314 811
- Coordinates
- 51.51436, -0.10673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Daily Telegraph Building is a Grade II listed newspaper office with flats above, constructed in 1928 by Elcock & Sutcliffe with Thomas Tait. The building features a podium made of Portland stone and granite and stands six storeys tall, including a recessed top storey. It is seven windows wide with a central entrance. The five central bays are slightly set forward within a five-storey panel that has a fluted frame. There are giant columns between the windows, and a stone fascia above the first floor displays the words "Daily Telegraph." The outer bays contain carriageways and vertical windows with zigzag panels, although only the first floor retains the original zigzag glazing. These outer bays rise to form towers. The building includes bronze balconies and window frames, with showcases featuring Egyptian ornamentation on the ground floor and openwork bronze doors. Stone relief sculptures are located above the door, on the same windows, and at the tops of the towers. A large, elaborate clock is attached at the third-floor level. A mezzanine has been inserted into the entrance hall, but other interior details have not been seen.
Local climate
The Daily Telegraph Building sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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