Front elevation of the Foreign Office, Whitehall, City of Westminster. Whitehall runs south from Trafalgar Square towards Parliament Square, the site previously occupied by the Palace of Whitehall, the residence of Kings Henry VIII through to William III, before it was destroyed by fire in 1698. The North Block of a massive building planned around courtyards to an 1861 design, completed 1873, by Sir George Gilbert Scott with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. It fronts on to Downing Street, Horse Guards Road, King Charles Street and Whitehall. At the time containing the Home Office, Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office. The building is Grade I listed number 1357354. Statues on the northern corner pavilion facing Downing Street by Henry Hugh Armstead, are former Colonial Secretaries. Sir William Molesworth, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1855; Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1835-1839; Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, Prime Minister 1827-1828 and Secretary of State for the Colonies 1827; Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst Prime Minister 1827-1828 and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1812-1827. Those facing Whitehall, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, three times Prime Minister and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1841-42; Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1852-54, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1858-59; Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1846-52.