The Echo Building

This extract is taken from "British Listed Buildings"

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.