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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
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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.
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The present building was erected in 1786–8 from the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, Surveyor to the Board of Admiralty, and a pupil of Sir Robert Taylor.
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Admiralty House was constructed on the site of two seventeenth century houses; Walsingham House, the London residence of
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Parliament — Ministerial Residences (21 July 2016,PDF)
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Grade I listed buildings in the City of Westminster
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Admiralty House, London is located in Central London
Westminster
Whitehall
London
SW1
United Kingdom
Coordinates
51°30′19.8″N 0°7′38.64″W / 51.505500°N 0.1274000°W / 51.505500; -0.1274000
First Lord of the Admiralty
His Majesty's Government
Samuel Pepys Cockerell
listed building
London
listed
Whitehall
Horse Guards Parade
Old Admiralty Building
Whitehall
Lady Walsingham
Sir Gilbert Pickering
Samuel Pepys Cockerell
protégé
Sir Robert Taylor
Admiral of the Fleet
Viscount Howe
First Lord of the Admiralty
British prime ministers
10 Downing Street
Winston Churchill

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