The Changing Face, and Faces, of Number 10 Downing Street: the geography of power since 1945
Jack Brown's 2016 post introducing his research as the first Researcher in Residence at Number 10, opening with the house's origins.
Blog post · 2016Sources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
The sentences the essay relies on.
- History of government blog
Downing was described by his clerk Samuel Pepys as 'a perfidious rogue'; the house was built cheaply on marshy land.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The post is an introduction to a research project rather than a history of the house; no Person record was created for the author.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Linked in the essay for houses cheaply built on marshy ground. It also repeats Pepys's phrase, which the essay quotes without a link.
Record history
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