Admiralty House in
London
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is a Grade I
listed building facing
Whitehall
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea, London, Chelsea. It ...
, currently used for government functions and as ministerial flats.
Description
Admiralty House is a four-storey building of yellow brick. The front has a symmetrical facade of three broad bays and one additional small bay at the southern end. The rear facade is of five bays and faces
Horse Guards Parade, with a basement-level exit under the corner of the
Old Admiralty Building. The front of the house faces
Whitehall
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. The road forms the first part of the A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea, London, Chelsea. It ...
. It is accessed from the older Ripley Building, to which it is connected.
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History
Admiralty House was constructed on the site of two seventeenth century houses; Walsingham House, the London residence of Lady Walsingham, and Pickering House, residence of Sir Gilbert Pickering.[ Built at the request of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Howe, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1782–1783 for "a few small rooms of my own", it was the official residence of First Lord of the Admiralty until 1964, and has also been home to several British prime ministers at times when ]10 Downing Street
10 Downing Street in London is the official residence and office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister of the United Kingdom. Colloquially known as Number 10, the building is located in Downing Street, off Whitehall in th ...
was being renovated.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...
lived in the house while serving as First Lord of the Admiralty for two terms, 1911–1915 and 1939–1940. It now contains government function rooms and three ministerial flats.Parliament — Ministerial Residences (21 July 2016, PDF)
from the UK Parliament website
It is usually open to the public during Open House London.
See also
* Admiralty buildings
References
External links
*
Admiralty House
entry from the '' Survey of London'' online, includin
plans of each floor as of 1935
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National government buildings in London
Official residences in the United Kingdom
Grade I listed buildings in the City of Westminster
Grade I listed government buildings
Houses completed in 1788
Houses in the City of Westminster
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1788 establishments in Great Britain
Prime ministerial homes in the United Kingdom