Gardens · London
2 Marsham Street
2 Marsham Street — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.
Alan Hughes — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Paid entry
About
2 Marsham Street is a garden of interest in england-london, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
2 Marsham Street is an office building on Marsham Street in the City of Westminster, London, and headquarters of the Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (and its predecessor bodies), departments of the British Government, since March 2005. Before this date the Home Office was located at 50 Queen Anne's Gate. It has also housed the headquarters of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since 2018.
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Background
History
The site was previously occupied by the Departments of Environment (DoE) and Transport (DfT). The headquarters offices of both departments were located in Marsham Towers—three 20-floor concrete towers (North, Centre and South) joined together by 'podium' floors to level 3. The towers won an architectural award, and boasted express lifts, marble entrances and escalators to the third floor—very modern government offices for the early 1970s. Construction had started in the early 1960s but was finally completed in 1971, becoming the office of the new DoE created in October 1970 (out of a merger between the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Ministry of Transport). which previously…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4957, -0.1299
- Address
- 2 Marsham Street, SW1P 4DF
- Established
- 2005
- Official site
- www.sjss.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q4633348 (CC0)
- wikipedia: 2 Marsham Street (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is 2 Marsham Street?
- 2 Marsham Street is in London, United Kingdom.
- When was 2 Marsham Street built?
- Built or established in 2005.
- Who owns 2 Marsham Street?
- 2 Marsham Street is owned by | landlord =.