Windsor House is an office building in Victoria Street,

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. It was built in 1973 by R. Seifert & Partners, The building replaced an older Victorian building, Windsor House (the Windsor Hotel, formerly the Army and Navy Hotel), which had been built in 1888 by

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. The 1970s complex consists of an eighteen-storey tower, a two-storey block (Butler Place) and residential accommodation (Christchurch House) above an underground car park and basement. The purple granite and glass facade of the main structure stands 70 m (230 ft). Butler Place houses

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at ground level. The eighteen-storey tower was previously occupied solely by staff from Transport for London but they have since left the building. In January 2018, the Government Property Agency acquired the building. The

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took over two floors in March 2018, relocating from the Home Office building at

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, SW1. The top four floors, formerly occupied by

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(starting in 2018) have been occupied by the London-headquartered merchant services fintech company SaltPay, since October 2022.

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