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Home Office Building


General information
Status	Completed
Address	2 Marsham Street, SW1P 4DF
Town or city	London
Country	United Kingdom
Construction started	2003
Opened	2005
Cost	£311 million
Client	Home Department, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Technical details
Floor count	7
Floor area	800,000 sq ft (74,000 m²)
Lifts/elevators	24
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Farrells
Structural engineer	Pell Frischmann
Main contractor	Bouygues
Awards and prizes	RIBA Award for Architecture

The Chartered Gas Works of the Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company, on what is now the site of the Home Office at 2 Marsham Street, as indicated in the 1862 Edward Stanford map of London

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.