{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} thumb|Daily Telegraph Building thumb|The building's clock The '''Daily Telegraph Building,''' also known as '''Peterborough Court''',<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=History – Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Inaugurates Goldman Sachs' New European Headquarters |url=https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/history/moments/1991-peterborough-court.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Goldman Sachs |language=en-US}}</ref> is an Art Deco office building with Egyptian decorations and a monumental colonnade façade, located at 135–141 Fleet Street, London.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=The London Encyclopedia|page=300|publisher=Pan Macmillan|year=2008|isbn=978-1-405-04924-5}}</ref>
The building was designed by Charles Ernest Elcock, after consulting with Thomas S. Tait, and opened in 1928.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West|first=James Stevens|last=Curl|page=412|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-1-134-23467-7}}</ref> The building is eight storeys tall and seven windows wide, and made of Portland stone. There is a large clock hanging above the street level. The building has been Grade II listed since 1983.<ref>{{Cite news |title=7 of the Best Art Deco Buildings in London {{!}} Architectural Digest |language=en |work=Architectural Digest |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/art-deco-london |access-date=24 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BUILDING, City and County of the City of London – 1358917{{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358917 |access-date=24 September 2018 |publisher=historicengland.org.uk}}</ref>
It was originally the head office of the British newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph'', before the company moved out in the 1980s following the Wapping dispute. The newspaper's diary column was named "Peterborough" after the building until 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-02-25 |title=RIP Peterborough: By Jove! It's the end of an era |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/rip-peterborough-by-jove-it-s-the-end-of-an-era-120293.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> The "Peterborough" diary name was revived in 2021 [https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1441753921966383106?lang=en-GB]. From 1991 to 2019 Peterborough Court was the European headquarters of the investment bank Goldman Sachs.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite book|title=London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide|page=103|first1=Ken|last1=Allinson|first2=Victoria|last2=Thornton|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-1-317-69046-7}}</ref> In 2021 the building's owners, members of the Qatari royal family, announced plans to spend £90 million redeveloping the building.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Howard |first=Tom |title=Qatari royals turn new page on Fleet Street at former Telegraph HQ |language=en |work=The Times|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/qatari-royals-turn-new-page-on-fleet-street-at-former-telegraph-hq-vr8ntdfv9 |access-date=2022-10-09 }}</ref>
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