Slightly different and not quite right. The Speaker’s House is a Grade-1 listed building by architect Charles Barry with a Grade-1 listed interior by Augustus Pugin. It’s an integral part of the Houses of Parliament and is the section with the large corner towers adjacent to Westminster Bridge. It’s also huge, with about 70 rooms, including a State Dining Room and the State Bedroom in which the monarch is supposed to sleep the night before their coronation, all spread over at least four floors. “State Rooms”, please note.
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Note: Michael Martin spent £724,600 refurbishing Speaker's House between the year of his appointment in 2000 and early 2008. £992,000 was spent on enhanced security for the residence and on the garden of the property.
So that was on an entirely different scale to the refurbishment of the relatively small and unlisted interior of the flat above 11 Downing Street that Carrie wants. Recent expenditure on the 11 Downing Street apartment...
Tony Blair (1997). £127,000
Gordon Brown (2007). Zero
David Cameron (2010). £64,000
Theresa May (2016). Zero
The flat at Number 11 Downing Street has undergone extensive refurbishments in recent decades, but had remained rooted in the 1960s until Tony and Cherie Blair moved in.
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