[1] The British Embassy to the Holy See is located in a separate building within the same compound.

The embassy building at Rome's Porta Pia was designed by the British architect Sir Basil Spence, and opened in 1971.

It replaced a building on the same location bought by the British government in the 19th century, which had been severely damaged in a terrorist attack in 1946.

The Ambassador's residence, in the San Giovanni area of Rome, was originally the property of an expatriate Russian princess, Zinaida Volkonskaya.

[3] Outside Rome, there is also a British Consulate-General in Milan, where the senior officer is known as the Consul-General.