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=== Smaller Dining or Breakfast Room ===
Above Taylor's vaulted kitchen, between the Pillared Room and the State Dining room, Soane created a Smaller Dining Room (sometimes called the Breakfast Room) that still exists. To build it, Soane removed the chimney from the kitchen to put a door in the room. He then moved the chimney to the east side, running a Y-shaped split flue inside the walls up either side of one of the windows above. The room therefore has a unique architectural feature: over the fireplace there is a window instead of the usual [[chimney breast]].{{sfn|Jones|1985|p=179}}

With its flat unadorned ceiling, simple mouldings and deep window seats, the Small Dining Room is intimate and comfortable. Usually furnished with a mahogany table seating only eight, Prime Ministers have often used this room when dining with family or when entertaining special guests on more personal state occasions.{{sfn|Seldon|1999|p=20}}''<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=68069&filename=figure0748-129-a.gif&pubid=748 figure0748-129-a] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826185217/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/plate-129 |date=26 August 2021 }}, british-history.ac.uk</ref>''<ref>British History Online, From: '[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68069 Plate 129: No. 10, Downing Street: breakfast room and smaller drawing room] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622070556/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68069 |date=22 June 2011 }}', Survey of London: volume 14: St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II (1931), pp. 129. Date accessed: 9 August 2008.</ref>