# No. 10 Downing St.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 1999, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-10-downing-st/3230 "1999-09-15T22:52:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-10-downing-st/3230/1 "1999-09-15T22:52:00Z")

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Does anyone live at Nos. 8 and 12?

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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-10-downing-st/3230/2 "1999-09-15T23:03:00Z")

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Apparently not at No. 8 but see below for No. 12:

[http://www.number-10.gov.uk/public/inside/index.html](http://www.number-10.gov.uk/public/inside/index.html)

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> Before Walpole took up residence in 1735 the architect, William Kent, linked the two houses together - and created the main rooms. His structure has remained more or less unchanged ever since. Most of the other houses in Downing Street have disappeared  
> over the years leaving numbers 10 and 11 (the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s house) as  
> the only remnants of Downing’s original development. Number 12 (the Whips’ Office) was completely rebuilt to a new design on the original site in the early 1960s.

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“non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem”  
– William of Ockham

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-10-downing-st/3230/3 "1999-09-15T23:07:00Z")

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Threadkiller. 😉

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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 1999, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-10-downing-st/3230/4 "1999-09-15T23:09:00Z")

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Sometimes you’re just right.

## p.s. And it feels so gooood!

“non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem”  
– William of Ockham

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-10-downing-st/3230/5 "1999-09-16T00:02:00Z")

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