Echo Office Building

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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