Editing Smith Square (section)

==Buildings==
[[File:Green Plaque William Thomas Stead.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Green plaque]] on the Lord North Street side of №&nbsp;5]]
[[File:36 Smith Square (411810994).jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Mulberry House]] on №&nbsp;36, former residence of [[Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett]]]]
Sir [[John Smith (Conservative politician)|John Smith]], who was Conservative M.P. for Cities of London and Westminster from 1965 to 1970, lived at №&nbsp;1.
The campaigning journalist [[William Thomas Stead]] lived at №&nbsp;5 from 1904 until his death on board the [[Titanic]] in 1912. Another famous resident was [[Rab Butler]], the Conservative Deputy Prime Minister.

№&nbsp;17 - Nobel House - cross-corner block built in 1928, for newly-formed [[Imperial Chemical Industries]] (ICI). ICI leased it to the government in 1987, and it is currently headquarters for the [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]].

Sharing the western part of the south side is [[Transport House]] which from 1928 to 1980 head-quartered the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] then the [[TGWU]] until the 1990s. It is now the headquarters of the [[Local Government Association]] and is known as Local Government House.

№s&nbsp;32-34 served as [[Conservative Central Office]], the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party's]] headquarters between 1958 and 2003.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/feb/09/uk.conservatives |title=Conservative Party Sell Smith Square Headquarters |work=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | first=David | last=Hencke | date=9 February 2007 | accessdate=23 May 2010}}</ref> It stood empty until 2007 when it was sold for £30.5m to Harcourt Developments who planned to redevelop it as flats before the 2008 credit crunch hit.<ref>{{cite news | title=Final curtain on Smith Square – sold for £30m | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1542159/Final-curtain-on-Smith-Square-sold-for-30m.html | first1=Christopher | last1= Hope | first2= Jonathan | last2=Isaby | date=9 February 2007}}</ref> It is now "Europe House".

№&nbsp;36 - [[Mulberry House]] - designed by Sir [[Edwin Lutyens]] and constructed in 1911 for [[Reginald McKenna]], a senior politician who later became chairman of the [[Midland Bank]]. It was later bought by [[Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett]] who, in conjunction with his wife, Gwen, commissioned an elaborate interior re-decoration by the architect [[Darcy Braddell]]. The result has been described as "one of the most important [[Art Deco]] interiors in London."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O145552/scandal-relief-jagger-charles-sargeant/|title=Scandal|publisher=[[Victoria & Albert Museum]]|access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{cite web|url=https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/1546884/doc_0_18.pdf|title=Mulberry House, 36 Smith Square SW1|publisher=[[OnTheMarket]]|access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref> It gained notoriety for the sculpture "Scandal", designed by [[Charles Sargeant Jagger]] which is now housed in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O145552/scandal-relief-jagger-charles-sargeant/|title=Scandal|publisher=[[Victoria & Albert Museum]]|access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref> The [[Grade II]] listed building went up for sale of £25 million in 2015.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mulberry-house-menage-a-trois-scandal-house-in-westminster-goes-on-sale-for-ps25m-10286032.html | title=Mulberry House: 'Menage a trois' scandal house in Westminster goes on | date=29 May 2015 }}</ref>