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As well as government buildings, the street is known for its memorial statues and monuments, including the UK's primary war memorial, the Cenotaph. South of the Cenotaph the thoroughfare becomes Parliament Street. The Whitehall Theatre (now the Trafalgar Studios) was formerly associated with a series of farces.
Map of Whitehall showing the MOD Main Building in relation to other government buildings and the River Thames. Comprising a site of 3 hectares (7.4 acres), the building is located on Whitehall within the City of Westminster, central London. Whitehall is lined with numerous government departments and offices and is close to the Houses of ...
The Banqueting House is the only integral building of the complex now standing, although it has been somewhat modified. Various other parts of the old palace still exist, often incorporated into new buildings in the Whitehall government complex.
It lacks its own entrance from Whitehall and is entered through the Ripley Courtyard or Ripley Building. [4] It is a three-storey building in yellow brick with neoclassical interiors. [5] The ground floor comprises meeting rooms for the Cabinet Office and the upper floors are three ministerial residences. [6] Admiralty House, Hong Kong in 1935
He found more than thirty access shafts for the network as well as entrances to Q-Whitehall (below Trafalgar Square), various government department buildings (including Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Old War Office, the Admiralty, the Treasury, and the Department of the Environment), the old Cabinet War Rooms ...
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. It ...
The building connects three historically distinct properties, as well as the remains of Henry VIII's 1530 tennis courts, part of the Palace of Whitehall, which can be seen within the building. The Whitehall frontage was designed by Sir John Soane and completed by Sir Charles Barry between 1845 and 1847 as the Treasury Buildings.
The western end of the building, on Horse Guards Road, is known as 1 Horse Guards Road (1HGR) and is occupied by HM Treasury, UK Export Finance, the Government Internal Audit Agency, the Northern Ireland Office, the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons, the Office of the Leader of the House of Lords and parts of the Cabinet Office, including the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.