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Treasury Building</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-10_Downing_Street_and_Kent's_Treasury_Building-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-A_"vast,_awkward_house":_1735–1902" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#A_"vast,_awkward_house":_1735–1902"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>A "vast, awkward house": 1735–1902</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-A_"vast,_awkward_house":_1735–1902-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Revival_and_recognition:_1902–1960" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Revival_and_recognition:_1902–1960"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Revival and recognition: 1902–1960</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Revival_and_recognition:_1902–1960-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rebuilding:_1960–1990" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rebuilding:_1960–1990"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Rebuilding: 1960–1990</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rebuilding:_1960–1990-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1990–present" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1990–present"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>1990–present</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1990–present-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-10_Downing_Street_today" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#10_Downing_Street_today"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>10 Downing Street today</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-10_Downing_Street_today-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rooms_and_special_features" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rooms_and_special_features"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Rooms and special features</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Rooms_and_special_features-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Rooms and special features subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Rooms_and_special_features-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Front_door_and_entrance_hall" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Front_door_and_entrance_hall"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Front door and entrance hall</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Front_door_and_entrance_hall-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Main_staircase" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Main_staircase"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Main staircase</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Main_staircase-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cabinet_Room" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cabinet_Room"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Cabinet Room</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cabinet_Room-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-State_drawing_rooms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#State_drawing_rooms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>State drawing rooms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-State_drawing_rooms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Pillared_State_Drawing_Room" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pillared_State_Drawing_Room"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.1</span> <span>Pillared State Drawing Room</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pillared_State_Drawing_Room-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Terracotta_State_Drawing_Room" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Terracotta_State_Drawing_Room"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.2</span> <span>Terracotta State Drawing Room</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Terracotta_State_Drawing_Room-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-White_State_Drawing_Room" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#White_State_Drawing_Room"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.3</span> <span>White State Drawing Room</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-White_State_Drawing_Room-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-State_Dining_Room" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#State_Dining_Room"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>State Dining Room</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-State_Dining_Room-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Great_kitchen" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Great_kitchen"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Great kitchen</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Great_kitchen-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Smaller_Dining_or_Breakfast_Room" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Smaller_Dining_or_Breakfast_Room"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Smaller Dining or Breakfast Room</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Smaller_Dining_or_Breakfast_Room-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Terrace_and_garden" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Terrace_and_garden"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>Terrace and garden</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Terrace_and_garden-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Furnishings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Furnishings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Furnishings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Furnishings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-250th_anniversary:_1985" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#250th_anniversary:_1985"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>250th anniversary: 1985</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-250th_anniversary:_1985-sublist" 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<span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%A6_%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9F" title="১০ ডাউনিং স্ট্রিট – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="১০ ডাউনিং স্ট্রিট" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9F" title="10 डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="10 डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%82_10" title="Даунинг стрийт 10 – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Даунинг стрийт 10" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_de_Downing_Street" title="10 de Downing Street – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="10 de Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_10" title="Downing Street 10 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Downing Street 10" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_10" title="Downing Street 10 – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Downing Street 10" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_de_Downing_Street" title="10 de Downing Street – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="10 de Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%DB%B1%DB%B0_%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF" title="شماره ۱۰ خیابان داونینگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شماره ۱۰ خیابان داونینگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B0%EB%8B%9D%EA%B0%80_10%EB%B2%88%EC%A7%80" title="다우닝가 10번지 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="다우닝가 10번지" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A1%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3_%D5%BD%D5%A9%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A9,_10" title="Դաունինգ սթրիթ, 10 – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դաունինգ սթրիթ, 10" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%A6_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9F" title="१० डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="१० डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_Nomor_10" title="Downing Street Nomor 10 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Downing Street Nomor 10" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downingstr%C3%A6ti_10" title="Downingstræti 10 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Downingstræti 10" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92_10" title="דאונינג 10 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דאונינג 10" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A9%E1%83%90_10" title="დაუნინგის ქუჩა 10 – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დაუნინგის ქუჩა 10" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3-%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82,_10" title="Даунинг-стрит, 10 – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Даунинг-стрит, 10" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dauningstr%C4%ABta_10" title="Dauningstrīta 10 – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Dauningstrīta 10" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dauningo_gatv%C4%97_10" title="Dauningo gatvė 10 – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Dauningo gatvė 10" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_10." title="Downing Street 10. – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Downing Street 10." data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%A6_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9F" title="१० डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="१० डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA" title="10 داوننج ستريت – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="10 داوننج ستريت" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%99_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F" title="टेन डाउनिङ स्ट्रिट – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="टेन डाउनिङ स्ट्रिट" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%A6%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E8%A1%9710%E7%95%AA%E5%9C%B0" title="ダウニング街10番地 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ダウニング街10番地" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_10" title="Downing Street 10 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Downing Street 10" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%8A%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%97_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9F%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%9F" title="10 ਡਾਊਨਿੰਗ ਸਟ੍ਰੀਟ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="10 ਡਾਊਨਿੰਗ ਸਟ੍ਰੀਟ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_%DA%88%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%B9" title="10 ڈاؤننگ سٹریٹ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="10 ڈاؤننگ سٹریٹ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3-%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82,_10" title="Даунинг-стрит, 10 – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Даунинг-стрит, 10" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%85%E0%B6%82%E0%B6%9A_10_%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%82_%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA" title="අංක 10 ඩවුනිං වීදිය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="අංක 10 ඩවුනිං වීදිය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_10" title="Downing Street 10 – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Downing Street 10" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="10 Downing Street" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81" title="10 டவுனிங் தெரு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="10 டவுனிங் தெரு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3-%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82,_10" title="Даунинг-стрит, 10 – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Даунинг-стрит, 10" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88_10_%E0%B8%96%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87" title="บ้านเลขที่ 10 ถนนดาวนิง – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="บ้านเลขที่ 10 ถนนดาวนิง" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Soka%C4%9F%C4%B1_10_Numara" title="Downing Sokağı 10 Numara – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Downing Sokağı 10 Numara" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BD%D2%91-%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D1%96%D1%82,_10" title="Даунінґ-стріт, 10 – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Даунінґ-стріт, 10" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_%DA%88%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%B9" title="10 ڈاؤننگ اسٹریٹ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="10 ڈاؤننگ اسٹریٹ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%E1%BB%91_10_ph%E1%BB%91_Downing" title="Số 10 phố Downing – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Số 10 phố Downing" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90%E5%AE%81%E8%A1%9710%E5%8F%B7" title="唐宁街10号 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="唐宁街10号" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90%E5%AF%A7%E8%A1%97%E5%8D%81%E8%99%9F" title="唐寧街十號 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="唐寧街十號" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" 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style="background-color:#ededed;color:#000;">General information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Architectural style</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Town or city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a><br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/SW_postcode_area" title="SW postcode area">SW1</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-label">Current tenants</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Keir_Starmer" title="Keir Starmer">Sir Keir Starmer</a> (<a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a>), <a href="/wiki/Spouse_of_the_Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> and Family <br /> <a href="/wiki/Larry_(cat)" title="Larry (cat)">Larry</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office" title="Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office">Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office</a>) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #FFC0CB; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/Listed_building#England_and_Wales" title="Listed building">Listed Building</a> – Grade I</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">10 Downing Street, SW1A 2AA</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">14 January 1970</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">1210759<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Construction started</th><td class="infobox-data">1682<span class="noprint">; 343 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1682</span>)</span></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Completed</th><td class="infobox-data">1684<span class="noprint">; 341 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1684</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed;color:#000;">Design and construction</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Architect(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Wren" title="Christopher Wren">Christopher Wren</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>10 Downing Street</b> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Official_residence" title="Official residence">official residence</a> and office of the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">prime minister of the United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Colloquially known as <b>Number 10</b>, the building is in <a href="/wiki/Downing_Street" title="Downing Street">Downing Street</a>, off <a href="/wiki/Whitehall" title="Whitehall">Whitehall</a> in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a>. 10 Downing Street is the current residence of the current prime minister <a href="/wiki/Keir_Starmer" title="Keir Starmer">Keir Starmer</a>, since 2024 after succeeding former prime minister <a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Rishi Sunak</a>. </p><p>It is over 300 years old, is Grade I listed,<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and contains approximately 100 rooms. A private residence for the prime minister occupies the third floor and there is a kitchen in the basement. The other floors contain offices and conference, reception, sitting and dining rooms where the prime minister works, and where government ministers, national leaders, and foreign dignitaries are met and hosted. At the rear is an interior courtyard and a terrace overlooking <a href="/wiki/Garden_of_10_and_11_Downing_Street" title="Garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street">a <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000014-QINU`"'</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>-acre (0.2 ha) garden</a>. Number 10 is adjacent to <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Park" title="St James's Park">St James's Park</a>, approximately <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac"><span class="num">3</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span> mile (1.2 km) from <a href="/wiki/Buckingham_Palace" title="Buckingham Palace">Buckingham Palace</a>, the official residence of the <a href="/wiki/British_Monarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="British Monarchy">British monarch</a> in London, and is near the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>, the meeting place of both Houses of <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a>. </p><p>Originally three houses, Number 10 was offered to <a href="/wiki/Robert_Walpole" title="Robert Walpole">Robert Walpole</a> by King <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a> in 1732.<sup id="cite_ref-gardeners_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gardeners-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walpole accepted on the condition that the gift was to the office of <a href="/wiki/First_Lord_of_the_Treasury" title="First Lord of the Treasury">First Lord of the Treasury</a>. The post of First Lord of the Treasury has, for much of the 18th and 19th centuries and invariably since 1905, been held by the prime minister. Walpole commissioned <a href="/wiki/William_Kent" title="William Kent">William Kent</a> to join the three houses and it is this larger house that is known as Number 10 Downing Street. </p><p>Despite its size and convenient location near to Parliament, few early prime ministers lived at 10 Downing Street. Costly to maintain, neglected, and run-down, Number 10 was scheduled to be demolished several times, but the property survived and became linked with many statesmen and events in British history. In 1985 Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> said Number 10 had become "one of the most precious jewels in the national heritage".<sup id="cite_ref-multiref1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister%27s_Office_(United_Kingdom)" title="Prime Minister's Office (United Kingdom)">Prime Minister's Office</a>, for which the terms <i>Downing Street</i> and <i>Number 10</i> are <a href="/wiki/Metonymy" title="Metonymy">metonyms</a>, lies within the 10 Downing Street building and is part of the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Office" title="Cabinet Office">Cabinet Office</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CO_0001_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CO_0001-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is staffed by <a href="/wiki/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)" title="Civil Service (United Kingdom)">civil servants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Special_adviser_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Special adviser (UK)">special advisers</a>. </p><p>10 Downing Street is the property of <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Government of the United Kingdom">His Majesty’s Government</a>. Its registered legal title is held in the name of the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Housing,_Communities_and_Local_Government" title="Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government">Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_(United_Kingdom)" title="Secretary of State (United Kingdom)">secretary of state</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Corporation_sole" title="Corporation sole">corporation sole</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_building">History of the building</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History of the building"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_Number_10">Original Number 10</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Original Number 10"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Number 10 Downing Street was originally three properties: a <a href="/wiki/Mansion" title="Mansion">mansion</a> overlooking <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Park" title="St James's Park">St James's Park</a> called "the House at the Back", a <a href="/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)" title="Townhouse (Great Britain)">town house</a> behind it, and a <a href="/wiki/Cottage" title="Cottage">cottage</a>. The town house, from which the modern building gets its name, was one of several built by <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Downing,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet">George Downing</a> between 1682 and 1684. </p><p>Downing, a noted spy for <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a>, invested in property and acquired considerable wealth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBolitho195716–21Jones198524–32Feely198217–31_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBolitho195716–21Jones198524–32Feely198217–31-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1654, he purchased the lease on land south of St James's Park, adjacent to the House at the Back within walking distance of parliament. Downing planned to build a row of terraced town houses "for persons of good quality to inhabit in ..."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196328_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196328-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The street on which he built them now bears his name, and the largest became part of Number 10 Downing Street.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_George_Downing_by_Thomas_Smith.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sir_George_Downing_by_Thomas_Smith.jpeg/220px-Sir_George_Downing_by_Thomas_Smith.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sir_George_Downing_by_Thomas_Smith.jpeg/330px-Sir_George_Downing_by_Thomas_Smith.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sir_George_Downing_by_Thomas_Smith.jpeg/440px-Sir_George_Downing_by_Thomas_Smith.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="847" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Downing,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet">George Downing</a> painted <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1675</span>–1690 by Thomas Smith, The <a href="/wiki/Fogg_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Fogg Museum">Fogg Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Straightforward as the investment seemed, it proved otherwise. The Hampden family had a lease on the land that they refused to relinquish. Downing fought their claim, but failed and had to wait 30 years before he could build.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeely198228–31_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeely198228–31-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the Hampden lease expired, Downing received permission to build on land further west to take advantage of more recent property developments. The new warrant issued in 1682 reads: "Sir George Downing ... [is authorised] to build new and more houses ... subject to the proviso that it be not built any nearer than 14 feet of the wall of the said Park at the West end thereof".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196328_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196328-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1682 and 1684, Downing built a <a href="/wiki/Cul-de-sac" class="mw-redirect" title="Cul-de-sac">cul-de-sac</a> of two-storey town houses with coach-houses, stables and views of St James's Park. Over the years, the addresses changed several times. In 1787, Number 5 became "Number 10".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198541_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198541-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Downing employed <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Wren" title="Christopher Wren">Christopher Wren</a> to design the houses. Although large, they were put up quickly and cheaply on soft soil with shallow foundations. <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> wrote that Number 10 was "shaky and lightly built by the profiteering contractor whose name they bear".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBolitho195720_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBolitho195720-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The upper end of the Downing Street cul-de-sac closed off the access to St James's Park, making the street quiet and private. An advertisement in 1720 described it as "a pretty open Place, especially at the upper end, where are four or five very large and well-built Houses, fit for Persons of Honour and Quality; each House having a pleasant Prospect into St James's Park, with a Tarras Walk".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196334_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196334-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cul-de-sac had several distinguished residents: <a href="/wiki/George_Granville,_1st_Baron_Lansdowne" title="George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne">George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne</a> from 1692 to 1696 and the <a href="/wiki/Henry_de_Nassau_d%27Auverquerque,_1st_Earl_of_Grantham" title="Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham">Earl of Grantham</a> from 1699 to 1703.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196334_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196334-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Downing did not live in Downing Street.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198532Feely198232_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198532Feely198232-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1675, he retired to <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, where he died in 1684, a few months after building was completed. In 1800, the wealth he had accumulated was used to found <a href="/wiki/Downing_College,_Cambridge" title="Downing College, Cambridge">Downing College, Cambridge</a>, as had been his wish should his descendants fail in the male line. Downing's portrait hangs in the entrance hall of Number 10.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985see_back_cover_picture_credited_to_Robert_Hill_@_BBC_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985see_back_cover_picture_credited_to_Robert_Hill_@_BBC-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_of_the_"House_at_the_Back"_before_1733"><span id="History_of_the_.22House_at_the_Back.22_before_1733"></span>History of the "House at the Back" before 1733</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History of the "House at the Back" before 1733"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Old_Palace_of_Whitehall_by_Hendrik_Danckerts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/The_Old_Palace_of_Whitehall_by_Hendrik_Danckerts.jpg/220px-The_Old_Palace_of_Whitehall_by_Hendrik_Danckerts.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/The_Old_Palace_of_Whitehall_by_Hendrik_Danckerts.jpg/330px-The_Old_Palace_of_Whitehall_by_Hendrik_Danckerts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/The_Old_Palace_of_Whitehall_by_Hendrik_Danckerts.jpg/440px-The_Old_Palace_of_Whitehall_by_Hendrik_Danckerts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><i>The Palace of Whitehall</i> by <a href="/wiki/Hendrick_Danckerts" title="Hendrick Danckerts">Hendrick Danckerts</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1660</span>–1679. Viewed from <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Park" title="St James's Park">St James's Park</a>, the "House at the Back" is on the right; the octagonal building next to it is the Cockpit.</figcaption></figure> <p><span class="anchor" id="Lichfield_House"></span> The "House at the Back", the largest of the three houses which were combined to make Number 10, was a mansion built in about 1530 next to <a href="/wiki/Whitehall_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitehall Palace">Whitehall Palace</a>. Rebuilt, expanded, and renovated many times since, it was originally one of several buildings that made up the "Cockpit Lodgings", so-called because they were attached to an octagonal structure used for <a href="/wiki/Cock-fighting" class="mw-redirect" title="Cock-fighting">cock-fighting</a>. Early in the 17th century, the Cockpit was converted to a concert hall and theatre; after the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a> of 1688, some of the first cabinet meetings were held there secretly.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196323_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196323-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For many years, the "House at the Back" was the home of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Knyvet,_1st_Baron_Knyvet" title="Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet">Thomas Knyvet</a>, Keeper of <a href="/wiki/Whitehall_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitehall Palace">Whitehall Palace</a>, famous for capturing <a href="/wiki/Guy_Fawkes" title="Guy Fawkes">Guy Fawkes</a> in 1605 and foiling his plot to assassinate King <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James I</a>. The previous year, Knyvet had moved into a house next door, approximately where Number 10 is today.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198516–18Minney196323–24_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198516–18Minney196323–24-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From that time, the "House at the Back" was usually occupied by members of the royal family or the government. <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Bohemia" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth of Bohemia">Princess Elizabeth</a>, eldest daughter of King <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James I</a>, lived there from 1604 until 1613 when she married <a href="/wiki/Frederick_V,_Elector_Palatine" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick V, Elector Palatine">Frederick V, Elector Palatine</a> and moved to <a href="/wiki/Heidelberg" title="Heidelberg">Heidelberg</a>. She was the grandmother of King <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain" title="George I of Great Britain">George I</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Elector_of_Hanover" class="mw-redirect" title="Elector of Hanover">Elector of Hanover</a>, who became King of Great Britain in 1714, and was the great-grandmother of King <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a>, who presented the house to Walpole in 1732.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196324_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196324-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/George_Monck,_1st_Duke_of_Albemarle" title="George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle">George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle</a>, the general responsible for the <a href="/wiki/Restoration_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Restoration (England)">Restoration of the Monarchy</a> in 1660, lived there from 1660 until his death in 1671. As head of the Great Treasury Commission of 1667–1672, Albemarle transformed accounting methods and allowed the Crown greater control over expenses. His secretary, <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Downing,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet">George Downing</a>, who built Downing Street, is thought to have created these changes. Albemarle is the first treasury minister to have lived in what became the home of the First Lord of the Treasury and prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196324–25_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196324–25-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1671 <a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_2nd_Duke_of_Buckingham" title="George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham">George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham</a> took possession when he joined the <a href="/wiki/Cabal_Ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabal Ministry">Cabal Ministry</a>. At considerable expense, Buckingham rebuilt the house. The result was a spacious mansion, lying parallel to Whitehall Palace with a view of St James Park from its garden.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198520–21_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198520–21-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Buckingham retired in 1676, <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Lee,_Countess_of_Lichfield" title="Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield">Lady Charlotte Fitzroy</a>, Charles II's daughter, moved in when she married <a href="/wiki/Edward_Lee,_1st_Earl_of_Lichfield" title="Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield">Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield</a>. The Crown authorised extensive rebuilding which included adding a storey, thus giving it three main floors, an attic and basement. This structure can be seen today as the rear section of Number 10.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198521_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198521-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See Plan of the Premises Granted to the Earl and Countess of Lichfield in 1677)</i><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-multiref4_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref4-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The likely reason that repair was required is that the house had settled in the swampy ground near the Thames, causing structural damage.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like Downing Street, it rested on a shallow foundation, a design error that caused problems until 1960 when the modern Number 10 was rebuilt on deep pilings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196325_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196325-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Lichfields followed <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a> into exile after the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>. Two years later in 1690, <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a> gave the "House at the Back" to <a href="/wiki/Henry_de_Nassau,_Lord_Overkirk" title="Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk">Hendrik van Nassau-Ouwerkerk</a>, a Dutch general who had assisted in securing the Crown for the Prince of Orange. Nassau, who Anglicised his name to "Overkirk", lived there until his death in 1708.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198521_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198521-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The "House at the Back" reverted to the Crown when Lady Overkirk died in 1720. The Treasury issued an order "for repairing and fitting it up in the best and most substantial manner" at a cost of £2,522. The work included: "The Back passage into Downing street to be repaired and a new door; a New Necessary House to be made; To take down the Useless passage formerly made for the Maids of Honour to go into Downing Street, when the Queen lived at the Cockpit; To New Cast a great Lead Cistern & pipes and to lay the Water into the house & a new frame for ye Cistern".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198523_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198523-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See Buildings on the Site of the Cockpit and Number 10 Downing Street c1720)</i><sup id="cite_ref-multiref4_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref4-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The name of the "House at the Back" changed with the occupant, from Lichfield House to Overkirk House in 1690 to Bothmer House in 1720.<sup id="cite_ref-Jones2005_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones2005-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_politician_and_"head_of_government"_in_the_house"><span id="First_politician_and_.22head_of_government.22_in_the_house"></span>First politician and "head of government" in the house</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: First politician and "head of government" in the house"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hans_Caspar_von_Bothmer" title="Hans Caspar von Bothmer">Johann Caspar von Bothmer</a>, Premier Minister of the <a href="/wiki/Electorate_of_Hanover" title="Electorate of Hanover">Electorate of Hanover</a>, head of the <a href="/wiki/German_Chancery" title="German Chancery">German Chancery</a> and adviser to George I and II, took up residency in 1720. Although Bothmer complained about "the ruinous Condition of the Premises",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196333_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196333-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he lived there until his death in 1732. Even though Count von Bothmer was not British, he was a subject of George I and George II and the first politician and head of a government who resided in 10 Downing Street.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_Lord's_house:_1733–1735"><span id="First_Lord.27s_house:_1733.E2.80.931735"></span>First Lord's house: 1733–1735</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: First Lord's house: 1733–1735"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo_-_Robert_Walpole.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo_-_Robert_Walpole.jpg/170px-Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo_-_Robert_Walpole.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo_-_Robert_Walpole.jpg/255px-Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo_-_Robert_Walpole.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo_-_Robert_Walpole.jpg/340px-Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo_-_Robert_Walpole.jpg 2x" data-file-width="920" data-file-height="1476" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Robert_Walpole" title="Robert Walpole">Robert Walpole</a> accepted <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a>'s gift of the house at the back and two Downing Street houses on behalf of the office of the <a href="/wiki/First_Lord_of_the_Treasury" title="First Lord of the Treasury">First Lord of the Treasury</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>When Count Bothmer died, ownership of the "House at the Back" reverted to the Crown. George II took this opportunity to offer it to Robert Walpole, often called the first prime minister, as a gift for his services to the nation: stabilising its finances, keeping it at peace and securing the Hanoverian succession.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walpole did not accept the gift for himself.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He proposed—and the King agreed—that the Crown give the properties to the Office of First Lord of the Treasury. Walpole would live there as the incumbent First Lord, but would vacate it for the next one.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeely198234_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeely198234-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To enlarge the new house, Walpole persuaded Mr Chicken, the tenant of a cottage next door, to move to another house in Downing Street.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBolitho195725_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBolitho195725-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This small house and the mansion at the back were then incorporated into Number 10. Walpole commissioned <a href="/wiki/William_Kent" title="William Kent">William Kent</a> to convert them into one building. Kent joined the larger houses by building a two-storey structure between them, consisting of one long room on the ground floor and several above. The remaining interior space was converted into a courtyard. He connected the Downing Street houses with a corridor. Having united the structures, Kent gutted and rebuilt the interior. He then surmounted the third storey of the house at the back with a pediment. To allow Walpole quicker access to Parliament, Kent closed the north side entrance from St James's Park, and made the door in Downing Street the main entrance.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The rebuilding took three years. On 23 September 1735, the <i>London Daily Post</i> announced that: "Yesterday the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, with his Lady and Family, removed from their House in St James's Square, to his new House, adjoining to the Treasury in St James's Park".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196350_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196350-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cost of conversion is unknown. Originally estimated at £8,000, the final cost probably exceeded £20,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199916_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199916-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walpole did not enter through the now-famous door; that would not be installed until forty years later. Kent's door was modest, belying the spacious elegance beyond. The First Lord's new, albeit temporary, home had sixty rooms, with hardwood and marble floors, crown moulding, elegant pillars and marble mantelpieces; those on the west side with views of St James's Park. One of the largest rooms was a study measuring forty feet by twenty with enormous windows overlooking St James's Park. "My Lord's Study"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198546_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198546-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (as Kent labelled it in his drawings) would later become the <a href="#Cabinet_Room">Cabinet Room</a> where prime ministers meet with the Cabinet ministers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196347_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196347-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortly after moving in, Walpole ordered that a portion of the land outside his study be converted into a terrace and garden. Letters patent issued in April 1736 state that: "... a piece of garden ground situated in his Majesty's park of St James's, & belonging & adjoining to the house now inhabited by the Right Honourable the Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, hath been lately made & fitted up at the Charge ... of the Crown".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The same document confirmed that Number 10 Downing Street was: "meant to be annexed & united to the Office of <a href="/wiki/HM_Treasury" title="HM Treasury">his Majesty's Treasury</a> & to be & to remain for the Use & Habitation of the first <a href="/wiki/Lords_Commissioners_of_the_Treasury" title="Lords Commissioners of the Treasury">Commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury</a> for the time being".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196346–47_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196346–47-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="10_Downing_Street_and_Kent's_Treasury_Building"><span id="10_Downing_Street_and_Kent.27s_Treasury_Building"></span>10 Downing Street and Kent's Treasury Building</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 10 Downing Street and Kent's Treasury Building"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At about the same time that William Kent was combining the Downing Street townhouse with the house at the back, he was also commissioned to design and construct a new Treasury building on the site of the old Tudor Cockpit located behind Downing Street. This project was completed in 1737 and included corridors connecting the Treasury building with 10 Downing Street allowing Walpole, as <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a> as well as First Lord of the Treasury, direct and convenient access to the Treasury offices. In effect the Treasury building became an annex of 10 Downing Street and its staff worked directly for Walpole on treasury, patronage and other public business. This arrangement remained in effect until the middle of the 19th century and until then all prime ministers who were also Chancellor took advantage of it. After Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Robert Peel</a> "gave up" being Chancellor in 1841, and this separation of positions gradually became a convention of the constitution, a locked door was installed between the buildings limiting the Prime Minister's access to the Treasury and its staff. Due to bomb damage in 1940, the Treasury relocated to the <a href="/wiki/Government_Offices_Great_George_Street" title="Government Offices Great George Street">Government Offices Great George Street</a>. Then in 1963 the Cabinet Office (including the Prime Minister's Office) and later the Civil Service (with the Prime minister as <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_the_Civil_Service" title="Minister for the Civil Service">Minister for the Civil Service</a>) moved into the renovated Kent Treasury Building. "Under (Prime Minister) Blair . . . the locked door, symbolically and physically dividing No. 10 from the Cabinet Office, was passed through with such frequency that its meaning was lost."<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A_"vast,_awkward_house":_1735–1902"><span id="A_.22vast.2C_awkward_house.22:_1735.E2.80.931902"></span>A "vast, awkward house": 1735–1902</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: A "vast, awkward house": 1735–1902"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OlderPittThe_Younger.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/OlderPittThe_Younger.jpg/170px-OlderPittThe_Younger.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/OlderPittThe_Younger.jpg/255px-OlderPittThe_Younger.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/OlderPittThe_Younger.jpg/340px-OlderPittThe_Younger.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2579" data-file-height="3299" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">William Pitt the Younger</a> lived in Number 10 for twenty years, longer than any Prime Minister before or since.</figcaption></figure> <p>Walpole lived in Number 10 until 1742. Although he had accepted it on behalf of future <a href="/wiki/First_Lord_of_the_Treasury" title="First Lord of the Treasury">First Lords of the Treasury</a>, it would be 21 years before any of his successors chose to live there; the five who followed Walpole preferred their own homes. This was the pattern until the beginning of the 20th century. Of the 31 First Lords from 1735 to 1902, only 16 (including Walpole) lived in Number 10.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198551_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198551-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One reason many First Lords chose not to live in Number 10 was that most owned London <a href="/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)" title="Townhouse (Great Britain)">town houses</a> superior in size and quality. To them, Number 10 was unimpressive. Their possession of the house, albeit temporary, was a <a href="/wiki/Perquisite" class="mw-redirect" title="Perquisite">perquisite</a> they could bestow as a political reward. Most lent it to the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>, others to lesser officials or to friends and relatives.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196329_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196329-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another reason for its unpopularity was that Number 10 was a hazardous place in which to live. Prone to sinking because it was built on soft soil and a shallow foundation, floors buckled and walls and chimneys cracked. It became unsafe and frequently required repairs. In 1766, for example, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend" title="Charles Townshend">Charles Townshend</a>, Chancellor of the Exchequer, pointed out that the house was in a dilapidated condition. His architect's letter to the Treasury stated: "...we have caused the House in Downing Street belonging to the Treasury to be surveyed, & find the Walls of the old part of the said House next the street to be much decayed, the Floors & Chimneys much sunk from the level".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196383–84_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196383–84-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Townshend ordered extensive repairs, which were still incomplete eight years later. A note from <a href="/wiki/Lord_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord North">Lord North</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Works" title="Office of Works">Office of Works</a>, dated September 1774, asks that the work on the front of the house, "which was begun by a Warrant from the Treasury dated 9 August 1766",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> be finished. <i>(See Kent's Treasury and No. 10, Downing Street, circa 1754.)</i><sup id="cite_ref-multiref4_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref4-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Treasury officials complained that the building was costing too much to maintain; some suggested that it should be razed and a new house constructed on the site or elsewhere. In 1782 the Board of Works reporting on "the dangerous state of the old part of the House", stated that "no time be lost in taking down said building".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198571_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198571-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1783 the <a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish-Bentinck,_3rd_Duke_of_Portland" title="William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland">Duke of Portland</a> moved out because it was once again in need of repair. A committee found that the money spent so far was insufficient. This time the Board of Works declared that "the Repairs, Alterations & Additions at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's House will amount to the sum of £5,580, exclusive of the sum for which they already have His Majesty's Warrant. And praying a Warrant for the said sum of £5,580—and also praying an Imprest of that sum to enable them to pay the Workmen".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198571_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198571-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This proved to be a gross underestimate; the final bill was over £11,000. The <i><a href="/wiki/Morning_Herald" title="Morning Herald">Morning Herald</a></i> fumed about the expense: "£500 pounds p.a. preceding the Great Repair, and £11,000 the Great Repair itself! So much has this extraordinary edifice cost the country – For one <a href="/wiki/Moiety_title" title="Moiety title">moiety</a> of the sum a much better dwelling might have been purchased!"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198572_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198572-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See Plan of the Design for Number 10 c1781.)</i><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A few prime ministers however did enjoy living in Number 10. Lord North, who conducted the war against the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>, lived there happily with his family from 1767 to 1782. <a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">William Pitt the Younger</a>, who made it his home for twenty years (longer than any First Lord before or since) from 1783 to 1801 and from 1804 to 1806, referred to it as "My vast, awkward house".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While there, Pitt reduced the national debt, formed the <a href="/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1788)" title="Triple Alliance (1788)">Triple Alliance</a> against France and won passage of the <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Union_1800" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Union 1800">Act of Union</a> that created the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</a>. <a href="/wiki/F._J._Robinson,_1st_Viscount_Goderich" title="F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich">F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich</a> took a special liking to the house in the late 1820s and spent state funds lavishly remodelling the interior.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963182–183_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963182–183-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:No_10_Downing_Street,_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg/220px-No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg/330px-No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg/440px-No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="641" /></a><figcaption>No 10 Downing Street, 1888 by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Norman_(artist)" title="Philip Norman (artist)">Philip Norman</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Garden_of_No_10_Downing_Street,_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Garden_of_No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg/220px-Garden_of_No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Garden_of_No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg/330px-Garden_of_No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Garden_of_No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg/440px-Garden_of_No_10_Downing_Street%2C_1888_by_Philip_Norman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="780" /></a><figcaption>Garden of No 10 Downing Street, 1888 by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Norman_(artist)" title="Philip Norman (artist)">Philip Norman</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Nevertheless, for 70 years following Pitt's death in 1806, Number 10 was rarely used as the First Lord's residence. From 1834 to 1877, it was either vacant or used only for offices and meetings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198551_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198551-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Downing Street declined at the turn of the 19th century, becoming surrounded with run-down buildings, dark alleys, the scene of crime and prostitution. Earlier, the government had taken over the other Downing Street houses: the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Office" title="Colonial Office">Colonial Office</a> occupied Number 14 in 1798; the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Office">Foreign Office</a> was at Number 16 and the houses on either side; the West India Department was in Number 18; and the Tithe Commissioners in Number 20. The houses deteriorated from neglect, became unsafe, and one by one were demolished. By 1857 Downing Street's townhouses were all gone except for Number 10, <a href="/wiki/Number_11_Downing_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Number 11 Downing Street">Number 11</a> (customarily the Chancellor of the Exchequer's residence), and <a href="/wiki/12_Downing_Street" title="12 Downing Street">Number 12</a> (used as offices for Government Whips). In 1879 a fire destroyed the upper floors of Number 12; it was renovated but only as a single-storey structure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199923_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199923-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198596_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198596-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See Numbers 10, 11, and 12 Downing Street First Floor Plan<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Ground Floor Plan.)</i><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revival_and_recognition:_1902–1960"><span id="Revival_and_recognition:_1902.E2.80.931960"></span>Revival and recognition: 1902–1960</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Revival and recognition: 1902–1960"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Lord Salisbury retired in 1902, his nephew, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_James_Balfour" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur James Balfour">Arthur James Balfour</a>, became prime minister. It was an easy transition: he was already First Lord of the Treasury and he was already living in Number 10. Balfour revived the custom that Number 10 is the First Lord and Prime Minister's official residence.<sup id="cite_ref-multiref4_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref4-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Churchill_V_sign_HU_55521.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Churchill_V_sign_HU_55521.jpg/170px-Churchill_V_sign_HU_55521.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Churchill_V_sign_HU_55521.jpg/255px-Churchill_V_sign_HU_55521.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Churchill_V_sign_HU_55521.jpg/340px-Churchill_V_sign_HU_55521.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2480" data-file-height="3323" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> emerging from Number 10 in 1943</figcaption></figure> <p>Without a bomb shelter, during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> the Prime Minister abandoned Number 10 instead using a flat in the Foreign office that became known as the No.10 Annexe, and lay above the much more comprehensive underground bunker used by <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> and now known as the <a href="/wiki/Churchill_War_Rooms" title="Churchill War Rooms">Churchill War Rooms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To reassure the people that his government was functioning normally, he insisted on being seen entering and leaving Number 10 occasionally, and indeed, continued to use it for meetings and dinners despite being urged not to.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963409_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963409-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a>, during his second ministry from 1974 to 1976, lived in his home in <a href="/wiki/Lord_North_Street" title="Lord North Street">Lord North Street</a> because <a href="/wiki/Mary_Wilson,_Baroness_Wilson_of_Rievaulx" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx">Mary Wilson</a> wanted "a proper home".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985156_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985156-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Air_Raid_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_H36089.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Air_Raid_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_H36089.jpg/220px-Air_Raid_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_H36089.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Air_Raid_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_H36089.jpg/330px-Air_Raid_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_H36089.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Air_Raid_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_H36089.jpg/440px-Air_Raid_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_H36089.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="792" /></a><figcaption>The damaged drawing room of 10 Downing Street following a bomb raid in February 1944.</figcaption></figure> <p>Despite these exceptions, Number 10 has been known as the prime minister's official home for over one hundred years. By the turn of the 20th century, photography and the penny press had linked Number 10 in the public mind with the premiership. The introduction of films and television would strengthen this association. Pictures of prime ministers with distinguished guests at the door became commonplace. With or without the prime minister present, visitors had their picture taken. Suffragettes posed in front of the door when they petitioned <a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">H. H. Asquith</a> for women's rights in 1913, a picture that became famous and was circulated around the world. In 1931, <a href="/wiki/Mohandas_Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohandas Gandhi">Mohandas Gandhi</a>, wearing the traditional homespun <i><a href="/wiki/Dhoti" title="Dhoti">dhoti</a></i>, posed leaving Number 10 after meeting with <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">Ramsay MacDonald</a> to discuss India's independence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963393_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963393-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This picture, too, became famous especially in India. The freedom fighters could see their leader had been received in the prime minister's home. Couse's elegant, understated door—stark black, framed in cream white with a bold white "10" clearly visible—was the perfect backdrop to record such events. Prime Ministers made historic announcements from the front step. Waving the <a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Anglo-German Agreement of Friendship</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a> proclaimed "Peace with honour" in 1938 from Number 10 after his meeting with <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> in Munich.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963402_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963402-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During World War II, Churchill was photographed many times emerging confidently from Number 10 holding up two fingers in the <a href="/wiki/V_sign" title="V sign">sign for "Victory"</a>. The building itself, however, did not escape the <a href="/wiki/The_Blitz" title="The Blitz">London Blitz</a> entirely unscathed; in February 1944 a bomb fell on nearby <a href="/wiki/Horse_Guards_Parade" title="Horse Guards Parade">Horse Guards Parade</a> and some of the drawing-room windows were destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The symbol of British government, Number 10 became a gathering place for protesters. <a href="/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst" title="Emmeline Pankhurst">Emmeline Pankhurst</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Suffragette" title="Suffragette">suffragette</a> leaders stormed Downing Street in 1908;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963333–334_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963333–334-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> anti-<a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> protestors marched there in the 1960s, as did anti-<a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a> protestors in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rebuilding:_1960–1990"><span id="Rebuilding:_1960.E2.80.931990"></span>Rebuilding: 1960–1990</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Rebuilding: 1960–1990"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Ronald_Reagan_Meeting_with_Prime_Minister_Margaret_Thatcher_at_10_Downing_Street_in_London,_England.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/President_Ronald_Reagan_Meeting_with_Prime_Minister_Margaret_Thatcher_at_10_Downing_Street_in_London%2C_England.jpg/170px-President_Ronald_Reagan_Meeting_with_Prime_Minister_Margaret_Thatcher_at_10_Downing_Street_in_London%2C_England.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/President_Ronald_Reagan_Meeting_with_Prime_Minister_Margaret_Thatcher_at_10_Downing_Street_in_London%2C_England.jpg/255px-President_Ronald_Reagan_Meeting_with_Prime_Minister_Margaret_Thatcher_at_10_Downing_Street_in_London%2C_England.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/President_Ronald_Reagan_Meeting_with_Prime_Minister_Margaret_Thatcher_at_10_Downing_Street_in_London%2C_England.jpg/340px-President_Ronald_Reagan_Meeting_with_Prime_Minister_Margaret_Thatcher_at_10_Downing_Street_in_London%2C_England.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2652" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> and U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> at 10 Downing Street in 1982.</figcaption></figure> <p>By the middle of the 20th century, Number 10 was falling apart again. The deterioration had been obvious for some time. The number of people allowed in the upper floors was limited for fear the bearing walls would collapse. The staircase had sunk several inches; some steps were buckled and the balustrade was out of alignment. <a href="/wiki/Dry_rot" title="Dry rot">Dry rot</a> was widespread throughout. The interior wood in the Cabinet Room's double columns was like sawdust. Skirting boards, doors, sills and other woodwork were riddled and weakened with disease. After reconstruction had begun, miners dug down into the foundations and found that the huge wooden beams supporting the house had decayed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963428_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963428-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985153–154_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985153–154-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1958, a committee under the chairmanship of the <a href="/wiki/David_Lindsay,_28th_Earl_of_Crawford" title="David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford">Earl of Crawford and Balcarres</a> was appointed by <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a> to investigate the condition of the house and make recommendations. In the committee's report there was some discussion of tearing down the building and constructing an entirely new residence but because the prime minister's home had become an icon of British architecture like <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Castle" title="Windsor Castle">Windsor Castle</a>, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament, the committee recommended that Number 10 (and Numbers 11 and 12) should be rebuilt using as much of the original materials as possible.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963428_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963428-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The interior would be photographed, measured, disassembled, and restored. A new foundation with deep pilings would be laid and the original buildings reassembled on top of it, allowing for much needed expansion and modernisation. Any original materials that were beyond repair – such as the pair of double columns in the Cabinet Room – would be replicated in detail. This was a formidable undertaking: the three buildings contained over 200 rooms spread out over five floors.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199932_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199932-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The architect <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Erith" title="Raymond Erith">Raymond Erith</a> carried out the design for this painstaking work<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963429–430_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963429–430-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the contractor that undertook it was <a href="/wiki/Mowlem" title="Mowlem">John Mowlem & Co</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Times</i> reported initially that the cost for the project would be £400,000. After more careful studies were completed, it was concluded that the "total cost was likely to be £1,250,000" and the work would take two years to complete.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the end, the cost was close to £3,000,000 and the work took almost three years due in large part to 14 labour strikes. There were also delays when archaeological excavations uncovered important artefacts dating from Roman, Saxon and medieval times.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199932Jones1985154_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199932Jones1985154-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Macmillan lived in <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_House,_London" title="Admiralty House, London">Admiralty House</a> during the reconstruction.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:No_10_door_installation_(16242584649).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/No_10_door_installation_%2816242584649%29.jpg/220px-No_10_door_installation_%2816242584649%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/No_10_door_installation_%2816242584649%29.jpg/330px-No_10_door_installation_%2816242584649%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/No_10_door_installation_%2816242584649%29.jpg/440px-No_10_door_installation_%2816242584649%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2999" data-file-height="1999" /></a><figcaption>The replica of the door with the <a href="/wiki/Union_Flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Flag">Union Flag</a> decoration in 2015</figcaption></figure> <p>The new foundation was made of steel-reinforced concrete with pilings sunk 6 to 18 feet (1.8 to 5.5 m).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199933_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199933-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "new" Number 10 consisted of about 60% new materials; the remaining 40% was either restored or replicas of originals. Many rooms and sections of the new building were reconstructed exactly as they were in the old Number 10. These included: the garden floor, the door and entrance foyer, the stairway, the hallway to the Cabinet Room, the Cabinet Room, the garden and terrace, the Small and Large State Rooms and the three reception rooms. The staircase, however, was rebuilt and simplified. Steel was hidden inside the columns in the Pillared Drawing Room to support the floor above. The upper floors were modernised and the third floor extended over Numbers 11 and 12 to allow more living space. As many as 40 coats of paint were stripped from the elaborate cornices in the main rooms revealing details unseen for almost 200 years in some cases.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199933_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199933-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When builders examined the exterior façade, they discovered that the black colour visible even in photographs from the mid-19th century was misleading; the bricks were actually yellow. The black appearance was the product of two centuries of pollution. To preserve the 'traditional' look of recent times, the newly cleaned yellow bricks were painted black to resemble their well-known appearance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985154–155_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985154–155-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963429–433_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963429–433-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the reconstruction was generally considered an architectural triumph, Erith was disappointed. He complained openly during and after the project that the government had altered his design to save money. "I am heart broken by the result," he said. "The whole project has been a frightful waste of money because it just has not been done properly. The <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Works_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Works</a> has insisted on economy after economy. I am bitterly disappointed with what has happened."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199934_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199934-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Erith described the numbers on the front, intended to be based on historical models, as 'a mess' and 'completely wrong' to a fellow historian.<sup id="cite_ref-Number_Ten_(Mosley)_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Number_Ten_(Mosley)-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Erith's concerns proved justified. Within a few years, dry rot was discovered, especially in the main rooms due to inadequate waterproofing and a broken water pipe. Extensive reconstruction again had to be undertaken in the late 1960s to resolve these problems.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199935_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199935-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further extensive repairs and remodelling, commissioned by Margaret Thatcher, were completed in the 1980s under the direction of Erith's associate, <a href="/wiki/Quinlan_Terry" title="Quinlan Terry">Quinlan Terry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199936_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199936-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990–present"><span id="1990.E2.80.93present"></span>1990–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1990–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Downing_Street_setting_a_Christmas_tree_for_2021_Christmas_(version_2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Downing_Street_setting_a_Christmas_tree_for_2021_Christmas_%28version_2%29.jpg/170px-Downing_Street_setting_a_Christmas_tree_for_2021_Christmas_%28version_2%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Downing_Street_setting_a_Christmas_tree_for_2021_Christmas_%28version_2%29.jpg/255px-Downing_Street_setting_a_Christmas_tree_for_2021_Christmas_%28version_2%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Downing_Street_setting_a_Christmas_tree_for_2021_Christmas_%28version_2%29.jpg/340px-Downing_Street_setting_a_Christmas_tree_for_2021_Christmas_%28version_2%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1898" data-file-height="2099" /></a><figcaption>Christmas tree outside Number 10 in 2021</figcaption></figure> <p>The work done by Erith and Terry in the 1960s and 1980s represents the most extensive remodelling of Number 10 in recent times. Since 1990 when the Terry reconstruction was completed, repairing, redecorating, remodelling, and updating the house has been ongoing as needed. The <a href="/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack" title="Downing Street mortar attack">IRA mortar attack</a> in February 1991 led to extensive work being done to repair the damage (mostly to the garden and exterior walls) and to improve security. In the summer of 1993 windows were rebuilt and in 1995 computer cables installed. In 1997, the building was remodelled to provide extra space for the prime minister's greatly increased staff.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199937_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199937-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To accommodate their large families, both <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> chose to live in the private residence above Number 11 rather than the smaller one above Number 10. In 2010, the Camerons completely modernised the 50-year-old private kitchen in Number 11. In March 2020, <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> refurbished the residential apartment at Number 11. <a href="/wiki/Downing_Street_refurbishment_controversy" title="Downing Street refurbishment controversy">This became the subject of public controversy</a>, and an <a href="/wiki/Electoral_Commission_(United_Kingdom)" title="Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)">Electoral Commission</a> inquiry took place into the financing of the refurbishment.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2023, a car was driven into the Downing Street gates. <a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Rishi Sunak</a> was inside at the time. A man was arrested by police and the car crash was not terrorism related.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="10_Downing_Street_today">10 Downing Street today</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 10 Downing Street today"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secretary_Pompeo_Meets_With_Prime_Minister_May_(40843256023).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Secretary_Pompeo_Meets_With_Prime_Minister_May_%2840843256023%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Pompeo_Meets_With_Prime_Minister_May_%2840843256023%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Secretary_Pompeo_Meets_With_Prime_Minister_May_%2840843256023%29.jpg/330px-Secretary_Pompeo_Meets_With_Prime_Minister_May_%2840843256023%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Secretary_Pompeo_Meets_With_Prime_Minister_May_%2840843256023%29.jpg/440px-Secretary_Pompeo_Meets_With_Prime_Minister_May_%2840843256023%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3682" data-file-height="2455" /></a><figcaption>Whole building of 10 Downing Street</figcaption></figure> <p>The current prime minister is <a href="/wiki/Keir_Starmer" title="Keir Starmer">Keir Starmer</a>. 10 Downing Street houses the UK <a href="#Cabinet_Room">Cabinet Room</a> in which <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Cabinet of the United Kingdom">Cabinet</a> meetings take place, chaired by the Prime Minister. It also houses the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister%27s_Office_(United_Kingdom)" title="Prime Minister's Office (United Kingdom)">Prime Minister's Executive Office</a>, which deals with government logistics and diplomacy.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rooms_and_special_features">Rooms and special features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Rooms and special features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Front_door_and_entrance_hall">Front door and entrance hall</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Front door and entrance hall"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gandhi_outside_10_Downing_Street,_London.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Gandhi_outside_10_Downing_Street%2C_London.jpg/170px-Gandhi_outside_10_Downing_Street%2C_London.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Gandhi_outside_10_Downing_Street%2C_London.jpg/255px-Gandhi_outside_10_Downing_Street%2C_London.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Gandhi_outside_10_Downing_Street%2C_London.jpg/340px-Gandhi_outside_10_Downing_Street%2C_London.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1806" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a> outside Number 10 in 1931. Dignitaries and visitors often pose for a photograph outside the door.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Number_10_front_door_(7500511890).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Number_10_front_door_%287500511890%29.jpg/220px-Number_10_front_door_%287500511890%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Number_10_front_door_%287500511890%29.jpg/330px-Number_10_front_door_%287500511890%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Number_10_front_door_%287500511890%29.jpg/440px-Number_10_front_door_%287500511890%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1837" data-file-height="1328" /></a><figcaption>The front door of 10 Downing Street, showing the letter-box inscribed with "First Lord of the Treasury"</figcaption></figure> <p>Number 10's door is the product of the renovations Charles Townshend ordered in 1766; it was probably not completed until 1772. Executed in the Georgian style by the architect <a href="/wiki/Kenton_Couse" title="Kenton Couse">Kenton Couse</a>, it is unassuming and narrow, consisting of a single white stone step leading to a modest brick front. The small, six-panelled door, originally made of black oak, is surrounded by cream-coloured casing and adorned with a semicircular <a href="/wiki/Fanlight" title="Fanlight">fanlight</a> window. Painted in white, between the top and middle sets of panels, is the number "10". The zero of the number "10" is painted in a very eccentric style, in a 37° angle anticlockwise. One theory is that this is in fact a capital 'O' as found in the <a href="/wiki/Trajan_lettering" class="mw-redirect" title="Trajan lettering">Trajan alphabet</a> that was used by the Ministry of Works at the time. A black iron <a href="/wiki/Door_knocker" title="Door knocker">knocker</a> in the shape of a lion's head is between the two middle panels; below the knocker is a brass <a href="/wiki/Letter_box" title="Letter box">letter box</a> with the inscription "First Lord of the Treasury". The doorbell is inscribed with "PUSH" although is rarely used in practice. A black ironwork fence with spiked <a href="/wiki/Newel" title="Newel">newel</a> posts runs along the front of the house and up each side of the step to the door. The fence rises above the step into a double-swirled archway, supporting an iron <a href="/wiki/Gas_lamp" class="mw-redirect" title="Gas lamp">gas lamp</a> surmounted by a crown.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196384_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196384-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See The Entrance Door c1930: As seen from the outside)</i><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-multiref10_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref10-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The door cannot be opened from the outside; there is always someone inside to unlock the door.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack" title="Downing Street mortar attack">IRA mortar attack in 1991</a>, the original black oak door was replaced by a blast-proof steel one. Regularly removed for refurbishment and replaced with a replica, it is so heavy that it takes eight men to lift it. The brass letterbox still bears the legend "First Lord of the Treasury". The original door was put on display in the Churchill Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Margaret_Thatcher_Nancy_Reagan_1986.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Margaret_Thatcher_Nancy_Reagan_1986.jpg/220px-Margaret_Thatcher_Nancy_Reagan_1986.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Margaret_Thatcher_Nancy_Reagan_1986.jpg/330px-Margaret_Thatcher_Nancy_Reagan_1986.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Margaret_Thatcher_Nancy_Reagan_1986.jpg/440px-Margaret_Thatcher_Nancy_Reagan_1986.jpg 2x" data-file-width="731" data-file-height="491" /></a><figcaption>Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> with US First Lady <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Reagan" title="Nancy Reagan">Nancy Reagan</a> in 1986 standing in the entrance hall.</figcaption></figure> <p>Beyond the door, Couse installed black and white marble tiles in the entrance hall that are still in use. A <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street_Guard_Chairs" title="10 Downing Street Guard Chairs">guard's chair</a> designed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Chippendale" title="Thomas Chippendale">Thomas Chippendale</a> sits in one corner. Once used when policemen sat on watch outside in the street, it has an unusual "hood" designed to protect them from the wind and cold and a drawer underneath where hot coals were placed to provide warmth. Scratches on the right arm were caused by their pistols rubbing up against the leather.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Number 10 Downing Street has a <a href="/wiki/Elevator" title="Elevator">lift</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Couse also added a bow front to the small cottage—formerly Mr Chicken's house—incorporated into Number 10 in Walpole's time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196384_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196384-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See The Entrance Door c1930: As seen from inside showing the black and white marble floor and the door providing access to Number 11)</i><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Plate126_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plate126-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Main_staircase">Main staircase</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Main staircase"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama%27s_trip_to_the_United_Kingdom_April_2016_(9).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Barack_Obama%27s_trip_to_the_United_Kingdom_April_2016_%289%29.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama%27s_trip_to_the_United_Kingdom_April_2016_%289%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Barack_Obama%27s_trip_to_the_United_Kingdom_April_2016_%289%29.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama%27s_trip_to_the_United_Kingdom_April_2016_%289%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Barack_Obama%27s_trip_to_the_United_Kingdom_April_2016_%289%29.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama%27s_trip_to_the_United_Kingdom_April_2016_%289%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2880" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>Main staircase, 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>When William Kent rebuilt the interior between 1732 and 1734, his craftsmen created a stone triple staircase. The main section had no visible supports. With a wrought iron balustrade, embellished with a scroll design, and mahogany handrail, it rises from the garden floor to the third floor. Kent's staircase is the first architectural feature visitors see as they enter Number 10. Black and white engravings and photographs of all the past prime ministers decorate the wall. They are rearranged slightly to make room for a photograph of each new prime minister. There is one exception. Winston Churchill is represented in two photographs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199949_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199949-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeely198213_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeely198213-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the bottom of the staircase are group photographs of prime ministers with their Cabinet ministers and representatives to <a href="/wiki/Imperial_conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial conference">imperial conferences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199949_101-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199949-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See The Main Stairway c1930 General view showing portraits of the prime ministers<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Detail of the Wrought Iron Balustrade<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See also Simon Schama's Tour of Downing Street. Pt4: The Staircase<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cabinet_Room">Cabinet Room</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Cabinet Room"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right noresize" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Gladstone%27s_Cabinet_of_1868_by_Lowes_Cato_Dickinson.jpg/300px-Gladstone%27s_Cabinet_of_1868_by_Lowes_Cato_Dickinson.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="192" class="mw-file-element" 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title="Use your cursor to explore (or click icon to enlarge)" /></map><figcaption>Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Gladstone</a> (in the foreground) meeting with his Cabinet in 1868<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the Cabinet Room, with its distinctive pair of double columns in the background.<sup id="cite_ref-shannon_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shannon-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In Kent's design for the enlarged Number 10, the Cabinet Room was a simple rectangular space with enormous windows. As part of the renovations begun in 1783, it was extended, giving the space its modern appearance. Probably not completed until 1796,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199918_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199918-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this alteration was achieved by removing the east wall and rebuilding it several feet inside the adjoining secretaries' room. At the entrance, a screen of two pairs of Corinthian columns was erected (to carry the extra span of the ceiling) supporting a moulded entablature that wraps around the room. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(architect)" title="Robert Taylor (architect)">Robert Taylor</a>, the architect who executed this concept, was knighted on its completion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117–118_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117–118-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resulting small space, framed by the pillars, serves as an <a href="/wiki/Antechamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Antechamber">anteroom</a> to the larger area. <a href="/wiki/Hendrick_Danckerts" title="Hendrick Danckerts">Hendrick Danckerts</a>' painting "The Palace of Whitehall" (shown at the beginning of this article) usually hangs in the ante-room.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199943_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199943-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also contains two large bookcases that house the prime minister's library; Cabinet members traditionally donate to the collection on leaving office – a tradition that began with Ramsay MacDonald in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon1999184_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon1999184-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-multiref11_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref11-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_and_U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry_at_10_Downing_Street_(26873120142).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/British_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_and_U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry_at_10_Downing_Street_%2826873120142%29.jpg/220px-British_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_and_U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry_at_10_Downing_Street_%2826873120142%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/British_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_and_U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry_at_10_Downing_Street_%2826873120142%29.jpg/330px-British_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_and_U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry_at_10_Downing_Street_%2826873120142%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/British_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_and_U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry_at_10_Downing_Street_%2826873120142%29.jpg/440px-British_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_and_U.S._Secretary_of_State_John_Kerry_at_10_Downing_Street_%2826873120142%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4747" data-file-height="3159" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> showing <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> around the Cabinet Room in 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>Although Kent intended the First Lord to use this space as his study, it has rarely served that purpose; it has almost always been the Cabinet Room. There have been a few exceptions. <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a> used the Cabinet Room as his office. A few prime ministers, such as Tony Blair, occasionally worked at the Cabinet Room table. Painted off-white with large floor to ceiling windows along one of the long walls, the room is light and airy. Three brass chandeliers hang from the high ceiling. The Cabinet table, purchased during the Gladstone era, dominates the room. The modern boat-shaped top, introduced by Harold Macmillan in the late 1950s, is supported by huge original oak legs. The table is surrounded by carved, solid mahogany chairs that also date from the Gladstone era. The prime minister's chair, the only one with arms, is situated midway along one side in front of the marble fireplace, facing the windows; when not in use, it is positioned at an angle for easy access.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199944–45_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199944–45-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only picture in the room is a copy of a portrait of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Walpole" title="Robert Walpole">Robert Walpole</a> by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_van_Loo" title="Jean-Baptiste van Loo">Jean-Baptiste van Loo</a> hanging over the fireplace.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985161_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985161-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_drawing_rooms">State drawing rooms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: State drawing rooms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Number 10 has three inter-linked state drawing rooms: the Pillared Drawing Room, the Terracotta Drawing Room and the White Drawing Room. (See the three state drawing rooms.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pillared_State_Drawing_Room">Pillared State Drawing Room</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Pillared State Drawing Room"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_and_Gordon_Brown_in_10_Downing_Street.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Barack_Obama_and_Gordon_Brown_in_10_Downing_Street.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_and_Gordon_Brown_in_10_Downing_Street.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Barack_Obama_and_Gordon_Brown_in_10_Downing_Street.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama_and_Gordon_Brown_in_10_Downing_Street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Barack_Obama_and_Gordon_Brown_in_10_Downing_Street.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama_and_Gordon_Brown_in_10_Downing_Street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2333" /></a><figcaption>Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a> and US President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in the Pillared Room, 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>The largest is the Pillared Room thought to have been created in 1796 by Taylor. Measuring 37 feet (11 m) long by 28 feet (8.5 m) wide, it takes its name from the twin <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a> pilasters with straight pediments at one end. Today, there is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I over the fireplace; during the Thatcher, Major and Blair ministries, a portrait of William Pitt by <a href="/wiki/George_Romney_(painter)" title="George Romney (painter)">Romney</a> was hung there.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Persian_carpet" title="Persian carpet">Persian carpet</a> covers almost the entire floor. A copy of a <a href="/wiki/Ardabil_Carpet" title="Ardabil Carpet">16th-century original</a> now kept in the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>, there is an inscription woven into it that reads: "I have no refuge in the world other than thy threshold. My head has no protection other than this porchway. The work of a slave of the holy place, Maqsud of <a href="/wiki/Kashan" title="Kashan">Kashan</a> in the year 926" (the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">Islamic</a> year corresponding to 1520).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985179_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985179-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the restoration conducted in the late 1980s, <a href="/wiki/Quinlan_Terry" title="Quinlan Terry">Quinlan Terry</a> restored the fireplace. Executed in the Kentian style, the small Ionic pilasters in the over-mantel are miniature duplicates of the large Ionic pillars in the room. The Ionic motif is also found in the door surrounds and panelling.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199936_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199936-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sparsely furnished with a few chairs and sofas around the walls, the Pillared Room is usually used to receive guests before they go into the State Dining Room. However, it is sometimes used for other purposes that require a large open space. International agreements have been signed in this room. <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> entertained the <a href="/wiki/England_national_rugby_union_team" title="England national rugby union team">England Rugby Union team</a> in the Pillared Room after they won the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_World_Cup" title="Rugby World Cup">World Cup</a> in <a href="/wiki/2003_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2003 Rugby World Cup">2003</a>. <a href="/wiki/John_Logie_Baird" title="John Logie Baird">John Logie Baird</a> gave <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">Ramsay MacDonald</a> a demonstration of his invention, the television, in this room.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985129_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985129-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199955_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199955-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See The Pillared Drawing Room c1927)</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Plate126_100-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plate126-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199925_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199925-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a> lunar landing in July 1969, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a> hosted a reception in the room for astronauts <a href="/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin" title="Buzz Aldrin">Buzz Aldrin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)" title="Michael Collins (astronaut)">Michael Collins</a>, in addition to Cambridge scientist <a href="/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon" title="Francis Thomas Bacon">Francis Thomas Bacon</a>, inventor of the <a href="/wiki/Alkaline_fuel_cell" title="Alkaline fuel cell">alkaline fuel cell</a> used to generate power for space capsules.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Terracotta_State_Drawing_Room">Terracotta State Drawing Room</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Terracotta State Drawing Room"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Terracotta Room is the middle of the three drawing rooms. It was used as the dining room when Robert Walpole was prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198546_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198546-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name changes according to the colour it is painted. When Margaret Thatcher came to power it was the Blue Room; she had it re-decorated and renamed the Green Room. It is now painted terracotta.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the renovation of the 1980s, Quinlan Terry introduced large Doric order columns to this room in the door surrounds and designed a very large <a href="/wiki/Palladian_architecture" title="Palladian architecture">Palladian</a> overmantel for the fireplace with small double Doric columns on each side with the royal arms above. Terry also added an ornate gilded ceiling to give the rooms a more stately look. Carved into the plasterwork above the door leading to the Pillared Room is a tribute to Margaret Thatcher: a straw-carrying 'thatcher'.<sup id="cite_ref-Seldon3537_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seldon3537-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="White_State_Drawing_Room">White State Drawing Room</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: White State Drawing Room"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The White State Drawing room was, until the 1940s, used by prime ministers and their partners for their private use. It was here that <a href="/wiki/Edward_Heath" title="Edward Heath">Edward Heath</a> kept his grand piano. It is often used as the backdrop for television interviews and is in regular use as a meeting room for Downing Street staff. The room links through to the Terracotta Room next door. In the reconstruction during the late 1980s, Quinlan Terry used Corinthian columns and added ornate Baroque-style central ceiling mouldings and corner mouldings of the four national flowers of the United Kingdom: rose (England), thistle (Scotland), daffodil (Wales) and shamrock (Northern Ireland).<sup id="cite_ref-Seldon3537_128-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seldon3537-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_Dining_Room">State Dining Room</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: State Dining Room"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <a href="/wiki/Frederick_John_Robinson,_1st_Viscount_Goderich" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich">Frederick Robinson</a> (later Lord Goderich), became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1823, he decided to leave a personal legacy to the nation. To this end, he employed <a href="/wiki/John_Soane" title="John Soane">John Soane</a>, the distinguished architect who had designed the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a> and many other famous buildings, to build a State Dining Room for Number 10. Begun in 1825 and completed in 1826 at a cost of £2,000, the result is a spacious room with oak panelling and reeded mouldings. Accessed through the first floor, its vaulted, arched ceiling rises up through the next so that it actually occupies two floors. Measuring 42 by 26 feet (12.8 by 7.9 m), it is the largest room in Number 10. Soane was the guest of honour when the dining room was first used on 4 April 1826.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The room is usually furnished with a table surrounded by 20 reproduction <a href="/wiki/Adam_style" title="Adam style">Adam style</a> chairs originally made for the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. For larger gatherings, a horseshoe-shaped table is brought in that will accommodate up to 65 guests. On these occasions, the table is set with the Silver Trust Silver set given to Downing Street in the 1990s. (See the State Dining room with the Silver Trust Silver in use for a luncheon<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) Above the fireplace, overlooking the room, is a massive portrait by <a href="/wiki/John_Shackleton" title="John Shackleton">John Shackleton</a> of George II, the king who originally gave the building to the First Lord of the Treasury in 1732.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985180_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985180-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Celebrity chefs such as <a href="/wiki/Nigella_Lawson" title="Nigella Lawson">Nigella Lawson</a> have cooked for Prime Ministers' guests using the small kitchen next door. Entering through the Small Dining Room, Blair used this room for his monthly press conferences.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199959_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199959-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963182_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963182-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See Simon Schama's Tour of Downing Street. Pt 3: The Dining Room)<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See The State Dining Room c1930: View toward the entrance<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and View from the entrance<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also a more modern view<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Great_kitchen">Great kitchen</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Great kitchen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:No_10,_Downing_Street,_Kitchen_1931.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/No_10%2C_Downing_Street%2C_Kitchen_1931.png/220px-No_10%2C_Downing_Street%2C_Kitchen_1931.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/No_10%2C_Downing_Street%2C_Kitchen_1931.png/330px-No_10%2C_Downing_Street%2C_Kitchen_1931.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/No_10%2C_Downing_Street%2C_Kitchen_1931.png/440px-No_10%2C_Downing_Street%2C_Kitchen_1931.png 2x" data-file-width="669" data-file-height="831" /></a><figcaption>Great kitchen, 1931</figcaption></figure> <p>The great kitchen located in the basement was another part of the renovations begun in 1783, probably also under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(architect)" title="Robert Taylor (architect)">Robert Taylor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199916_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199916-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seldom seen by anyone other than staff, the space is two storeys high with a huge arched window and vaulted ceiling. Traditionally, it has always had a chopping block work table in the centre that is 14 feet (4.3 m) long, 3 feet (0.91 m) wide and 5 inches (13 cm) thick.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Smaller_Dining_or_Breakfast_Room">Smaller Dining or Breakfast Room</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Smaller Dining or Breakfast Room"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Above Taylor's vaulted kitchen, between the Pillared Room and the State Dining room, Soane created a Smaller Dining Room (sometimes called the Breakfast Room) that still exists. To build it, Soane removed the chimney from the kitchen to put a door in the room. He then moved the chimney to the east side, running a Y-shaped split flue inside the walls up either side of one of the windows above. The room therefore has a unique architectural feature: over the fireplace there is a window instead of the usual <a href="/wiki/Chimney_breast" title="Chimney breast">chimney breast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985179_121-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985179-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With its flat unadorned ceiling, simple mouldings and deep window seats, the Small Dining Room is intimate and comfortable. Usually furnished with a mahogany table seating only eight, Prime Ministers have often used this room when dining with family or when entertaining special guests on more personal state occasions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199920_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199920-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>(See the Small Dining or Breakfast Room c1927. The double doors behind the table lead to the State Dining Room.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</i><sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Terrace_and_garden">Terrace and garden</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Terrace and garden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Garden_of_10_and_11_Downing_Street" title="Garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street">Garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ImperialConference1923.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/ImperialConference1923.jpg/220px-ImperialConference1923.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/ImperialConference1923.jpg/330px-ImperialConference1923.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/ImperialConference1923.jpg/440px-ImperialConference1923.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="469" /></a><figcaption>Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a> (seated centre with his legs crossed) poses in the garden of Number Ten with representatives to the <a href="/wiki/1923_Imperial_Conference" title="1923 Imperial Conference">1923 Imperial Conference</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The terrace and garden were constructed in 1736 shortly after Walpole moved into Number 10. The terrace, extending across the back, provides a full view of St James's Park. The garden is dominated by a half-acre (0.2 ha) open lawn which wraps around Numbers 10 and 11 in an L-shape. No longer "fitted with variety Walle fruit and diverse fruit trees" as it was in the 17th century, there is now a centrally located flower bed around a holly tree surrounded by seats. Tubs of flowers line the steps from the terrace; around the walls are rose beds with flowering and evergreen shrubs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985180_131-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985180-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199946_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199946-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See North elevation of Number 10 with steps leading to the garden<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The terrace and garden have provided a casual setting for many gatherings of First Lords with foreign dignitaries, Cabinet ministers, guests, and staff. Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, for example, hosted a farewell reception in 2007 for his staff on the terrace. <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> announced his 1995 resignation as leader of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> in the garden. Churchill called his secretaries the "garden girls" because their offices overlook the garden.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones1985138_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones1985138-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also the location of the first press conference announcing the <a href="/wiki/Cameron%E2%80%93Clegg_coalition" title="Cameron–Clegg coalition">Coalition Government</a> between <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a>'s Conservatives and <a href="/wiki/Nick_Clegg" title="Nick Clegg">Nick Clegg</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Furnishings">Furnishings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Furnishings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Number 10 is filled with fine paintings, sculptures, busts and furniture. Only a few are permanent features. Most are on loan. About half belong to the <a href="/wiki/Government_Art_Collection" title="Government Art Collection">Government Art Collection</a>. The remainder are on loan from private collectors and from public galleries such as the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tate_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Tate Gallery">Tate Gallery</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery" title="National Gallery">National Gallery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon1999172_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon1999172-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See works from the Government Art Collection currently on display at Number 10<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>About a dozen paintings are changed annually. More extensive changes occur when a new prime minister takes office and redecorates.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These redecorations may reflect both individual taste as well as make a political statement. <a href="/wiki/Edward_Heath" title="Edward Heath">Edward Heath</a> borrowed French paintings from the National Gallery and was loaned two <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir" title="Pierre-Auguste Renoir">Renoirs</a> from a private collector. When Margaret Thatcher arrived in 1979 she insisted that the artwork had to be British and that it celebrate "British achievers". As a former chemist, she took pleasure in devoting the Small Dining Room to a collection of portraits of British scientists, such as <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Priestley" title="Joseph Priestley">Joseph Priestley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Humphry_Davy" title="Humphry Davy">Humphry Davy</a>. During the 1990s <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> converted the first floor anteroom into a small gallery of modern art, mostly British. He also introduced several paintings by <a href="/wiki/John_Constable" title="John Constable">John Constable</a> and <a href="/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" title="J. M. W. Turner">J. M. W. Turner</a>, Britain's two best known 19th-century artists, and cricketing paintings by <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Stuart-Wortley_(painter)" title="Archibald Stuart-Wortley (painter)">Archibald Stuart-Wortley</a> including a portrait of one of England's most celebrated batsmen <a href="/wiki/W._G._Grace" title="W. G. Grace">W. G. Grace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon1999172–173_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon1999172–173-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to outstanding artwork, Number 10 contains many exceptional pieces of furniture either owned by the house or on loan. One of the most striking and unusual is the already mentioned Chippendale hooded guard's chair that sits in a corner of the entrance hall. To its left is a long case clock by Benson of Whitehaven. A similar clock by Samuel Whichcote of London stands in the Cabinet anteroom. The White State Drawing Room contains examples of <a href="/wiki/Adam_style" title="Adam style">Adam furniture</a>. The Green State Drawing Room contains mostly Chippendale furniture including a card table that belonged to <a href="/wiki/Robert_Clive" title="Robert Clive">Clive of India</a> and a mahogany desk that is thought to have belonged to William Pitt the Younger and used by him during the Napoleonic Wars. In addition to the large carpet previously described, the Pillared State Drawing Room also contains a marble-topped table by Kent. The State Dining Room contains a mahogany <a href="/wiki/Sideboard" title="Sideboard">sideboard</a> by Adam.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon1999185–188_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon1999185–188-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-note1_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-note1-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until the late 19th century, Prime Ministers were required to furnish Number 10 at their own expense with furniture, tableware, china, linens, curtains and decorations. This arrangement began to change in 1877 when <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Benjamin Disraeli</a> took up residency. He insisted that the Treasury should bear the cost of furnishings at least in the public areas. The Treasury agreed and a complex accounting procedure was developed whereby the outgoing prime minister was required to pay for "wear and tear" on furnishings that had been purchased by the Treasury. This system was used until November 1897 when the Treasury assumed responsibility for purchasing and maintaining almost all of the furnishings in both the public and private areas except decorating the walls with art work. In 1924 when Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">Ramsay MacDonald</a> took office, he did not own nor have the means to buy an extensive art collection. He had the Government Art Collection loan pieces. The arrangement became the standard practice.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963285–286_157-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963285–286-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="250th_anniversary:_1985">250th anniversary: 1985</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 250th anniversary: 1985"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Queen_in_Downing_Street_in_1985_to_mark_the_250th_anniversary_of_Robert_Walpole%27s_occupancy_of_No.10.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Queen_in_Downing_Street_in_1985_to_mark_the_250th_anniversary_of_Robert_Walpole%27s_occupancy_of_No.10.jpeg/220px-The_Queen_in_Downing_Street_in_1985_to_mark_the_250th_anniversary_of_Robert_Walpole%27s_occupancy_of_No.10.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Queen_in_Downing_Street_in_1985_to_mark_the_250th_anniversary_of_Robert_Walpole%27s_occupancy_of_No.10.jpeg/330px-The_Queen_in_Downing_Street_in_1985_to_mark_the_250th_anniversary_of_Robert_Walpole%27s_occupancy_of_No.10.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/The_Queen_in_Downing_Street_in_1985_to_mark_the_250th_anniversary_of_Robert_Walpole%27s_occupancy_of_No.10.jpeg/440px-The_Queen_in_Downing_Street_in_1985_to_mark_the_250th_anniversary_of_Robert_Walpole%27s_occupancy_of_No.10.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="991" data-file-height="658" /></a><figcaption>Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> in Downing Street in 1985, to mark the 250th anniversary of Robert Walpole's occupancy of No.10</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1985, Number 10 was 250 years old. To celebrate, Thatcher hosted a grand dinner in the State Dining Room for her living predecessors: <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home" title="Alec Douglas-Home">Alec Douglas-Home</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Heath" title="Edward Heath">Edward Heath</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in attendance were <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> and representatives of the families of every 20th-century Prime Minister since <a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">H. H. Asquith</a>, including Lady <a href="/wiki/Olwen_Carey_Evans" title="Olwen Carey Evans">Olwen Carey Evans</a> (daughter of <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a>), Lady Leonora Howard (daughter of <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Clarissa_Eden,_Countess_of_Avon" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon">Clarissa Avon</a> (widow of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Anthony Eden</a> and niece of <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199990_159-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199990-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>That same year, the Leisure Circle published Christopher Jones' book <i>No. 10 Downing Street, The Story of a House</i>. In the foreword, Thatcher described her feelings for Number 10: "How much I wish that the public ... could share with me the feeling of Britain's historic greatness which pervades every nook and cranny of this complicated and meandering old building ... All Prime Ministers are intensely aware that, as tenants and stewards of No. 10 Downing Street, they have in their charge one of the most precious jewels in the nation's heritage".<sup id="cite_ref-multiref1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiref1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Security_after_the_1991_bombing">Security after the 1991 bombing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Security after the 1991 bombing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack" title="Downing Street mortar attack">Downing Street mortar attack</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Downing_Street_gates.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Downing_Street_gates.jpg/220px-Downing_Street_gates.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Downing_Street_gates.jpg/330px-Downing_Street_gates.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Downing_Street_gates.jpg/440px-Downing_Street_gates.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4500" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Gates at the main entrance of Downing Street</figcaption></figure> <p>For most of its history, Number 10 was accessible to the public. Early security consisted of two police officers: one stood guard outside the door; the other was stationed inside to open it. Since the door had no keyhole, the inside officer depended upon the lone outside officer. During Thatcher's premiership, terrorist threats led to the implementation of a second level of security. Despite the added measure, on 7 February 1991, the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_IRA" class="mw-redirect" title="Provisional IRA">Provisional IRA</a> used a van they parked in <a href="/wiki/Whitehall" title="Whitehall">Whitehall</a> to launch a <a href="/wiki/Mortar_shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Mortar shell">mortar shell</a> at Number 10. It exploded in the back garden, while Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> was holding a Cabinet meeting. Major moved to <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_House,_London" title="Admiralty House, London">Admiralty House</a> while repairs were being completed. The attack led to the famous black door being replaced with a new blast-proof door and the addition of guardhouses at the street ends as well as other less visible measures to further improve security of Downing Street.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199937_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199937-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street_lecterns" title="10 Downing Street lecterns">10 Downing Street lecterns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street_Guard_Chairs" title="10 Downing Street Guard Chairs">10 Downing Street Guard Chairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chequers" title="Chequers">Chequers</a> – the prime minister's official country residence</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_residents_of_10_Downing_Street" title="List of residents of 10 Downing Street">List of residents of 10 Downing Street</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">At the end of the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Salisbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Salisbury">Lord Salisbury</a>, the last Prime Minister not to concurrently hold the post of First Lord of the Treasury, lived in his town house on Arlington Street. During Salisbury's <a href="/wiki/Unionist_government,_1895%E2%80%931905" title="Unionist government, 1895–1905">last ministry</a> from 1895 to 1902, the First Lord was his nephew and successor <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Arthur Balfour</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_of_Commons" title="Leader of the House of Commons">Leader of the House of Commons</a>; it was thus Balfour who resided in Number 10 in this time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963322_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963322-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-note1-156"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-note1_156-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Until the late 19th century, Prime Ministers were required to furnish Number 10 at their own expense with furniture, tableware, china, linens, curtains and decorations. This arrangement began to change in 1877 when Benjamin Disraeli took up residency. He insisted that the Treasury should bear the cost of furnishings at least in the public areas. The Treasury agreed and a complex accounting procedure was developed whereby the outgoing Prime Minister was required to pay for "wear and tear" on furnishings that had been purchased by the Treasury. This system was used until November 1897 when the Treasury assumed responsibility for purchasing and maintaining almost all of the furnishings in both the public and private areas except decorating the walls with art work. In 1924 when Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald took office, he did not own nor have the means to buy an extensive art collection. He had the Government Art Collection loan pieces. The arrangement became the standard practice.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963285–286_157-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963285–286-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=10_Downing_Street&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-NHLE-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHistoric_England1210759" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1210759?section=official-list-entry">"10 Downing Street (1210759)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/National_Heritage_List_for_England" title="National Heritage List for England">National Heritage List for England</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=10+Surprising+facts+about+Number+10+Downing+Street&rft.date=2020&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fprogrammes%2Farticles%2F3LrMh99XJ1Xsh7GtrvH1s8H%2F10-surprising-facts-about-number-10-downing-street&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-multiref1-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-multiref1_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiref1_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones1985">Jones 1985</a>, in letter from Margaret Thatcher used as a preface to the book.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CO_0001-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CO_0001_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100701163002/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/about-cabinet-office/cabinet-office-structure.aspx">"Cabinet Office structure"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Office" title="Cabinet Office">Cabinet Office</a> HM Government. 10 June 2010. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 March</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=fig50&rft.pub=British+History+Online&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.british-history.ac.uk%2Fimage.aspx%3Fcompid%3D67934%26filename%3Dfig50.gif%26pubid%3D748&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-multiref4-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-multiref4_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiref4_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiref4_23-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiref4_23-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">British History Online, From: '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67934">No. 10, Downing Street</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140829162757/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67934">Archived</a> 29 August 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>', <a href="/wiki/Survey_of_London" title="Survey of London">Survey of London</a>: volume 14: St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II (1931), pp. 113–141. Date accessed: 22 July 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The diarist <a href="/wiki/Pepys" class="mw-redirect" title="Pepys">Pepys</a> recorded a high tide when Whitehall was under water and it is known that buildings in the area require deep foundations to avoid settling.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196325-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196325_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, p. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198523-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198523_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones1985">Jones 1985</a>, p. 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=67934&filename=fig51.gif&pubid=748">"fig51"</a>. British History Online<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 March</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=fig51&rft.pub=British+History+Online&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.british-history.ac.uk%2Fimage.aspx%3Fcompid%3D67934%26filename%3Dfig51.gif%26pubid%3D748&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jones2005-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Jones2005_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJones2005" class="citation book cs1">Jones, Nigel R. (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=epsFOeV1mCMC&pg=PA187"><i>Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales</i></a>. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 187. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-31850-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-31850-4"><bdi>978-0-313-31850-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Architecture+of+England%2C+Scotland%2C+and+Wales&rft.pages=187&rft.pub=Greenwood+Publishing+Group&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-313-31850-4&rft.aulast=Jones&rft.aufirst=Nigel+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DepsFOeV1mCMC%26pg%3DPA187&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196333-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196333_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, p. 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/pp113-141">"No. 10, Downing Street | British History Online"</a>. <i>www.british-history.ac.uk</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140829162757/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67934">Archived</a> from the original on 29 August 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.british-history.ac.uk&rft.atitle=No.+10%2C+Downing+Street+%7C+British+History+Online&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.british-history.ac.uk%2Fsurvey-london%2Fvol14%2Fpt3%2Fpp113-141&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cKU4lNdIfeAC&pg=PR34"><i>Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society</i></a>. 1871. p. xxxiv. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164818/https://books.google.com/books?id=cKU4lNdIfeAC&pg=PR34">Archived</a> from the original on 26 March 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 March</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Collections+of+the+Massachusetts+Historical+Society&rft.pages=xxxiv&rft.date=1871&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DcKU4lNdIfeAC%26pg%3DPR34&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See letter, dated, "Downing Street, 30 June 1742", from <a href="/wiki/Horace_Walpole" title="Horace Walpole">Horace Walpole</a> to <a href="/wiki/Horace_Mann" title="Horace Mann">Horace Mann</a>: "I am writing to you in one of the charming rooms towards the Park: it is I am willing to enjoy this sweet corner while I may, for we are soon to quit it. Mrs. Sandys came yesterday to give us warning; <a href="/wiki/Lord_Wilmington" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Wilmington">Lord Wilmington</a> has lent it to them. <i>Sir Robert might have had it for his own at first: but would only take it as First Lord of the Treasury.</i> He goes into a small house of his own in Arlington Street, opposite to where we formerly lived". (Horace Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham, 1857, I, p. 246.) British History Online, From: '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67934">No. 10, Downing Street</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140829162757/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67934">Archived</a> 29 August 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>', Survey of London: volume 14: St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II (1931), pp. 113–141. Date accessed: 21 July 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeely198234-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeely198234_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFeely1982">Feely 1982</a>, p. 34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBolitho195725-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBolitho195725_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBolitho1957">Bolitho 1957</a>, p. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=966852&resourceID=19191">"Monument Number 966852"</a>. Heritage Gateway. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230215220349/https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=966852&resourceID=19191">Archived</a> from the original on 15 February 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 February</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Monument+Number+966852&rft.pub=Heritage+Gateway&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritagegateway.org.uk%2FGateway%2FResults_Single.aspx%3Fuid%3D966852%26resourceID%3D19191&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196350-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196350_36-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, p. 50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199916-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199916_37-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199916_37-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSeldon1999">Seldon 1999</a>, p. 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198546-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198546_38-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198546_38-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones1985">Jones 1985</a>, p. 46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196347-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196347_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, p. 47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShaw1900" class="citation web cs1">Shaw, William A. (1900). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books-papers/vol3/pp165-168">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Treasury Books and Papers: April 1736', in Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, Volume 3, 1735-1738"</a>. London: British History Online. pp. <span class="nowrap">165–</span>168. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230705130452/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books-papers/vol3/pp165-168">Archived</a> from the original on 5 July 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 February</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%27Treasury+Books+and+Papers%3A+April+1736%27%2C+in+Calendar+of+Treasury+Books+and+Papers%2C+Volume+3%2C+1735-1738&rft.place=London&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E165-%3C%2Fspan%3E168&rft.pub=British+History+Online&rft.date=1900&rft.aulast=Shaw&rft.aufirst=William+A.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.british-history.ac.uk%2Fcal-treasury-books-papers%2Fvol3%2Fpp165-168&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196346–47-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196346–47_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, pp. 46–47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlick2010" class="citation book cs1">Blick, Andrew (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742600769"><i>Premiership : the development, nature and power of the British Prime Minister</i></a>. G. W. Jones. Exeter: Imprint Academic. pp. 134–135 and 144-145. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84540-647-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84540-647-9"><bdi>978-1-84540-647-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/742600769">742600769</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Premiership+%3A+the+development%2C+nature+and+power+of+the+British+Prime+Minister&rft.place=Exeter&rft.pages=134-135+and+144-145&rft.pub=Imprint+Academic&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F742600769&rft.isbn=978-1-84540-647-9&rft.aulast=Blick&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Foclc%2F742600769&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198551-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198551_43-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198551_43-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones1985">Jones 1985</a>, p. 51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196329-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196329_44-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, p. 29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones1985">Jones 1985</a>, p. 52. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Pelham" title="Henry Pelham">Henry Pelham</a>, for example, had his own spacious home and had no need for Number 10. In a piece of "blatant political corruption", he allowed his son-in-law, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Pelham-Clinton,_2nd_Duke_of_Newcastle-under-Lyne" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne">Henry Clinton</a>, Earl of Lincoln, to live there from 1745 to 1753 even though Clinton was not involved in politics.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, pp. 173 and 179. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Lord Liverpool</a> assigned it to his two Chancellors of the Exchequer, <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Vansittart" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Vansittart">Nicholas Vansittart</a> (1812–1823) and <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Robinson,_1st_Viscount_Goderich" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich">Frederick Robinson</a> (1823–1827).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">British History Online, Letter (B.M. Addl. MS. 38292, f. 11) from Lord Liverpool to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Ellis,_1st_Baron_Seaford" title="Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford">Charles Ellis</a>, dated 22 January 1823, is of interest.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When you spoke to me some time ago upon the subject of the House in Downing Street, I was under the impression, as you were yourself, that the house was the King's & that he might dispose of it in any manner he might think proper. <i>Upon Inquiry, however, it appeared that the House was attached to the Treasury as a Part of the Office. That the First Lord of the Treasury occupies it if he thinks proper. If he declines it, the Chancellor of the Exchequer occupies it, not as Chancellor of the Exchequer, but as second in the Commission of the Treasury. That if he declined it, it would go to the next in the Commission, or it might possibly be disposed of by the Board to any Member or Officer of the Treasury; but could not, & never has been detached from it. You are mistaken in supposing that Mr. Vansittart is the only Chancellor of the Exchequer who, without being first Lord of the Treasury, occupied it.</i> <a href="/wiki/Lord_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord North">Lord North</a> certainly occupied it during the two years he was Chancellor of the Exchequer only. I believe Mr. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend" title="Charles Townshend">Charles Townshend</a> occupied it, but I know <a href="/wiki/William_Dowdeswell_(politician,_born_1721)" title="William Dowdeswell (politician, born 1721)">Mr. Dowdeswell</a> did, & it is remarkable that he is, I believe, the only instance of a Chancellor of the Exchequer upon Record who was not in the Cabinet. The House stands in fact upon the same footing as the Houses of the Admiralty, which could not be assigned to any Person not belonging to that office.</p></blockquote></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBolitho1957">Bolitho 1957</a>, p. 116. A few peers lived in Number 10 out of necessity. The <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Duke of Wellington</a>, for example, grudgingly lived there for eighteen months between 1828 and 1830 because his own home, <a href="/wiki/Apsley_House" title="Apsley House">Apsley House</a>, was undergoing extensive renovations. He left as soon as it was finished.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963322-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963322_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, p. 322.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney196383–84-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney196383–84_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, pp. 83–84.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117_52-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMinney1963117_52-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMinney1963">Minney 1963</a>, p. 117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=67934&filename=fig52.gif&pubid=748">fig52</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240106100709/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/pp113-141">Archived</a> 6 January 2024 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, british-history.ac.uk</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198571-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198571_54-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198571_54-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones1985">Jones 1985</a>, p. 71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJones198572-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJones198572_55-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJones1985">Jones 1985</a>, p. 72.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=68051&filename=figure0748-111.gif&pubid=748">figure0748-111</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210826184811/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/plate-111">Archived</a> 26 August 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, british-history.ac.uk</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">British History Online, From: '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68051">Plate 111: No. 10, Downing Street: plan of alterations in 1781</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130927121744/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68051">Archived</a> 27 September 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>', Survey of London: volume 14: St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II (1931), pp. 111. 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(1931). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/plate-126">"Plate 126: No. 10, Downing Street, entrance hall and drawing room"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Survey_of_London" title="Survey of London">Survey of London</a></i>. 14 St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II. London: London County Council: 126. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201103090358/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/plate-126">Archived</a> from the original on 3 November 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 February</span> 2020</span> – via <a href="/wiki/British_History_Online" title="British History Online">British History Online</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Survey+of+London&rft.atitle=Plate+126%3A+No.+10%2C+Downing+Street%2C+entrance+hall+and+drawing+room&rft.volume=14+St+Margaret%2C+Westminster%2C+part+III%3A+Whitehall+II&rft.pages=126&rft.date=1931&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.british-history.ac.uk%2Fsurvey-london%2Fvol14%2Fpt3%2Fplate-126&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESeldon199925-125"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESeldon199925_125-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSeldon1999">Seldon 1999</a>, p. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-126">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/apollo-11-mission-50-years-on-the-cambridge-scientist-who-helped-put-man-on-the-moon-9077166/">"Apollo 11 mission 50 years on: The Cambridge scientist who helped put man on the moon"</a>. <i>Cambridge Independent</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220703183428/https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/apollo-11-mission-50-years-on-the-cambridge-scientist-who-helped-put-man-on-the-moon-9077166/">Archived</a> from the original on 3 July 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 February</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+National+News&rft.atitle=Story+behind+the+Terracotta+Room+at+Downing+Street&rft.date=2021-09-17&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenationalnews.com%2Fuae%2Fgovernment%2F2021%2F09%2F17%2Fstory-behind-the-terracotta-room-at-downing-street%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Seldon3537-128"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Seldon3537_128-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Seldon3537_128-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSeldon1999">Seldon 1999</a>, pp. 35–37</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDarley1999" class="citation book cs1">Darley, Gillian (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OPimTe7hArkC&pg=PA289"><i>John Soane: An Accidental Romantic</i></a>. Yale University Press. p. 289. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0300086959" title="Special:BookSources/978-0300086959"><bdi>978-0300086959</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164811/https://books.google.com/books?id=OPimTe7hArkC&pg=PA289">Archived</a> from the original on 26 March 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 March</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=John+Soane%3A+An+Accidental+Romantic&rft.pages=289&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-0300086959&rft.aulast=Darley&rft.aufirst=Gillian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DOPimTe7hArkC%26pg%3DPA289&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-130">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091117131404/http://www.silvertrust.co.uk/about2.html">"Welcome to The Silver Trust"</a>. 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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/815822725">815822725</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=No.+10+Downing+Street%3A+A+House+in+History&rft.place=Boston&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown+and+Company&rft.date=1963&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F815822725&rft.aulast=Minney&rft.aufirst=R.J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSeldon1999" class="citation book cs1">Seldon, Anthony (1999). <i>No. 10 Downing Street: The Illustrated History</i>. London: HarperCollins Illustrated. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-414073-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-414073-5"><bdi>978-0-00-414073-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=No.+10+Downing+Street%3A+The+Illustrated+History&rft.place=London&rft.pub=HarperCollins+Illustrated&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-0-00-414073-5&rft.aulast=Seldon&rft.aufirst=Anthony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A10+Downing+Street" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith1990" class="citation book cs1">Smith, Goldwin (1990). <i>A Constitutional and Legal History of England</i>. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Buildings_and_structures_in_London" title="Category:Buildings and structures in London">Buildings and<br />structures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Bridges_in_London" title="Category:Bridges in London">Bridges</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London" title="Albert Bridge, London">Albert Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Bridge" title="Battersea Bridge">Battersea Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackfriars_Bridge" title="Blackfriars Bridge">Blackfriars Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Bridge" title="Chelsea Bridge">Chelsea Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_Bridge" title="Hammersmith Bridge">Hammersmith Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungerford_Bridge_and_Golden_Jubilee_Bridges" title="Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges">Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Bridge" title="Lambeth Bridge">Lambeth Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Bridge" title="London Bridge">London Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London" title="Millennium Bridge, London">Millennium Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney_Bridge" title="Putney Bridge">Putney Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Bridge,_London" title="Richmond Bridge, London">Richmond Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwark_Bridge" title="Southwark Bridge">Southwark Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tower_Bridge" title="Tower Bridge">Tower Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vauxhall_Bridge" title="Vauxhall Bridge">Vauxhall Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Bridge" title="Waterloo Bridge">Waterloo Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Bridge" title="Westminster Bridge">Westminster Bridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Entertainment_venues_in_London" title="Category:Entertainment venues in London">Entertainment<br />venues</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Cinemas_in_London" title="Category:Cinemas in London">Cinemas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BFI_IMAX" title="BFI IMAX">BFI IMAX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empire,_Leicester_Square" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire, Leicester Square">Empire, Leicester Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odeon_Luxe_Leicester_Square" title="Odeon Luxe Leicester Square">Odeon Luxe Leicester Square</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Football stadia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wembley_Stadium" title="Wembley Stadium">Wembley Stadium</a> (national stadium)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brentford_Community_Stadium" title="Brentford Community Stadium">Brentford Community Stadium</a> (Brentford)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Road" title="Brisbane Road">Brisbane Road</a> (Leyton Orient)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craven_Cottage" title="Craven Cottage">Craven Cottage</a> (Fulham)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Den" title="The Den">The Den</a> (Millwall)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirates_Stadium" title="Emirates Stadium">Emirates Stadium</a> (Arsenal)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loftus_Road" title="Loftus Road">Loftus Road</a> (Queens Park Rangers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Stadium" title="London Stadium">London Stadium</a> (West Ham United)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plough_Lane" title="Plough Lane">Plough Lane</a> (AFC Wimbledon)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selhurst_Park" title="Selhurst Park">Selhurst Park</a> (Crystal Palace)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford_Bridge_(stadium)" title="Stamford Bridge (stadium)">Stamford Bridge</a> (Chelsea)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Valley_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Valley (London)">The Valley</a> (Charlton Athletic)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tottenham_Hotspur_Stadium" title="Tottenham Hotspur Stadium">Tottenham Hotspur Stadium</a> (Tottenham Hotspur)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Sports_venues_in_London" title="Category:Sports venues in London">Other major<br />sports venues</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club" title="All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club">All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Championship_Course" title="The Championship Course">The Championship Course</a> (rowing)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_Palace_National_Sports_Centre" title="Crystal Palace National Sports Centre">Crystal Palace National Sports Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a> (cricket)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Olympic_Park" title="Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park">Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a> (cricket)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twickenham_Stadium" title="Twickenham Stadium">Twickenham Stadium</a> (rugby)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Theatres_in_London" title="Template:Theatres in London">Theatres</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adelphi_Theatre" title="Adelphi Theatre">Adelphi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Victoria_Theatre" title="Apollo Victoria Theatre">Apollo Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Coliseum" title="London Coliseum">Coliseum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criterion_Theatre" title="Criterion Theatre">Criterion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominion_Theatre" title="Dominion Theatre">Dominion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyceum_Theatre,_London" title="Lyceum Theatre, London">Lyceum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Vic" title="The Old Vic">Old Vic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Palladium" title="London Palladium">Palladium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">Royal National Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Opera_House" title="Royal Opera House">Royal Opera House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Theatre Royal, Drury Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal_Haymarket" title="Theatre Royal Haymarket">Theatre Royal Haymarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaudeville_Theatre" title="Vaudeville Theatre">Vaudeville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Palace" title="Alexandra Palace">Alexandra Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brixton_Academy" title="Brixton Academy">Brixton Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ExCeL_London" title="ExCeL London">ExCeL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_Apollo" title="Hammersmith Apollo">Hammersmith Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_O2_Arena" title="The O2 Arena">The O2 Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Festival_Hall" title="Royal Festival Hall">Royal Festival Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wembley_Arena" title="Wembley Arena">Wembley Arena</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">10 Downing Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_Arch" title="Admiralty Arch">Admiralty Arch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Hall,_London_(Southwark)" title="City Hall, London (Southwark)">City Hall (Southwark)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Hall,_London_(Newham)" title="City Hall, London (Newham)">City Hall (Newham)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Hall,_London" title="County Hall, London">County Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guildhall,_London" title="Guildhall, London">Guildhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horse_Guards_(building)" title="Horse Guards (building)">Horse Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansion_House,_London" title="Mansion House, London">Mansion House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Bailey" title="Old Bailey">Old Bailey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Courts_of_Justice" title="Royal Courts of Justice">Royal Courts of Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIS_Building" title="SIS Building">SIS Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thames_House" title="Thames House">Thames House</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Museums_in_London" title="Category:Museums in London">Museums</a> and<br /><a href="/wiki/Category:Art_museums_and_galleries_in_London" title="Category:Art museums and galleries in London">galleries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Churchill_War_Rooms" title="Churchill War Rooms">Churchill War Rooms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courtauld_Gallery" title="Courtauld Gallery">Courtauld Gallery</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cutty_Sark" title="Cutty Sark">Cutty Sark</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Hinde_(1973)" title="Golden Hinde (1973)"><i>Golden Hinde</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guildhall_Art_Gallery" title="Guildhall Art Gallery">Guildhall Art Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Belfast" title="HMS Belfast">HMS <i>Belfast</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum" title="Imperial War Museum">Imperial War Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Canal_Museum" title="London Canal Museum">London Canal Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Museum" title="London Museum">London Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Museum_Docklands" title="London Museum Docklands">London Museum Docklands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Museum_of_Water_%26_Steam" title="London Museum of Water & Steam">London Museum of Water & Steam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madame_Tussauds" title="Madame Tussauds">Madame Tussauds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Gallery" title="National Gallery">National Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Maritime_Museum" title="National Maritime Museum">National Maritime Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">Natural History Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Arts" title="Royal Academy of Arts">Royal Academy of Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich" title="Royal Observatory, Greenwich">Royal Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_Museum,_London" title="Science Museum, London">Science Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate_Britain" title="Tate Britain">Tate Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate_Modern" title="Tate Modern">Tate Modern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_Collection" title="Wallace Collection">Wallace Collection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_V%26A" title="Young V&A">Young V&A</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Religious_buildings_and_structures_in_London" title="Category:Religious buildings and structures in London">Places of worship</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Hallows-by-the-Tower" title="All Hallows-by-the-Tower">All Hallows-by-the-Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAPS_Shri_Swaminarayan_Mandir_London" title="BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London">BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bevis_Marks_Synagogue" title="Bevis Marks Synagogue">Bevis Marks Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methodist_Central_Hall,_Westminster" title="Methodist Central Hall, Westminster">Methodist Central Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Central_Mosque" title="London Central Mosque">Regent's Park Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Clement_Danes" title="St Clement Danes">St Clement Danes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Margaret%27s,_Westminster" title="St Margaret's, Westminster">St Margaret's, Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Martin-in-the-Fields" title="St Martin-in-the-Fields">St Martin-in-the-Fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary-le-Bow" title="St Mary-le-Bow">St Mary-le-Bow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwark_Cathedral" title="Southwark Cathedral">Southwark Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Cathedral" title="Westminster Cathedral">Westminster Cathedral</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;">Retailing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Shops_in_London" title="Category:Shops in London">Shops</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fortnum_%26_Mason" title="Fortnum & Mason">Fortnum & Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamleys" title="Hamleys">Hamleys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrods" title="Harrods">Harrods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Nichols" title="Harvey Nichols">Harvey Nichols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatchards" title="Hatchards">Hatchards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_(department_store)" title="Liberty (department store)">Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Jones_(department_store)" title="Peter Jones (department store)">Peter Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selfridges,_Oxford_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="Selfridges, Oxford Street">Selfridges</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Shopping_centres_in_London" title="Category:Shopping centres in London">Shopping centres</a><br />and markets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borough_Market" title="Borough Market">Borough Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Cross_Shopping_Centre" title="Brent Cross Shopping Centre">Brent Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington_Arcade" title="Burlington Arcade">Burlington Arcade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camden_Market" title="Camden Market">Camden Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_Arcade" title="Kensington Arcade">Kensington Arcade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leadenhall_Market" title="Leadenhall Market">Leadenhall Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_New_Change" title="One New Change">One New Change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petticoat_Lane_Market" title="Petticoat Lane Market">Petticoat Lane Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Exchange,_London" title="Royal Exchange, London">Royal Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westfield_London" title="Westfield London">Westfield London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westfield_Stratford_City" title="Westfield Stratford City">Westfield Stratford City</a></li></ul> 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