Lancaster House

City of Westminster, United Kingdom

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Lancaster House is a Grade I listed mansion on The Mall in St James's, Westminster, designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt and completed in 1840. Originally intended for Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, it was ultimately built as an aristocratic townhouse by George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, and became renowned for its lavish interiors. Situated adjacent to Green Park and neighboring Clarence House and St James's Palace on what was once palace grounds, the Neoclassical and Georgian structure was gifted to the government in the early twentieth century. It subsequently housed the London Museum until the Second World War and the government's wine cellars, and now serves the Foreign Office for diplomatic receptions. Its distinguished interiors have frequently been used as a film and television stand-in for Buckingham Palace.