11 Downing Street

City of Westminster, United Kingdom

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Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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11 Downing Street in London is the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and traditionally also the Second Lord of the Treasury. This Grade I listed Georgian house was designed by Christopher Wren and built in 1682 alongside the Prime Minister's residence at Number 10. Though Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice was the first chancellor to occupy it in 1806, the building did not become the chancellor's official residence until 1828. Since 1997, successive prime ministers—Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson—chose to reside in the larger residential flat above Number 11 for all or part of their terms, a practice broken by Rishi Sunak, who returned to the smaller flat at Number 10. Keir Starmer and his family have occupied the residence above Number 11.