This was used as the dining room when Sir Robert Walpole was PM. The name of this room changes according to the colour it is painted. When Margaret Thatcher came to power it was the Blue Room and she had it re-decorated and re-named the Green Room. It is now painted terracotta.
There are many famous works of art in this room, on loan from the Government Art Collection. This is where the PM took tea with legendary South African politician Nelson Mandela on his most recent visit.
Interesting items
Desk
This was William Pitt the Younger’s desk and is almost 200 years old. It seems tiny when someone sits at it today. Asquith wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany from this desk before the First World War and Chamberlain penned a letter to Hitler from here in the 1930s.
Thatcher
A legacy of Margaret Thatcher, who commissioned the new ceiling, is the straw-carrying ‘thatcher’ carved into in the plasterwork above the door leading to the Pillared room.
Gilded ceiling
The gilded ceiling was added during the 1989 renovation commissioned by Margaret Thatcher. Designer Quinlan Terry was brought in the give the rooms a more stately look.
- Move on the the Pillared Room
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