The Admiralty were even worse. The grabbed a big hotel in the middle of Bath (The Empire) and kept it into the '90s - Oxenos
Depends on your definition of worse I suppose, but you can see at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Hotel,_Bath why the Engineer-in-Chief decided to move his department there in 1939, even though Pevsner was apparently not impressed.
Current local wisdom says that, if you move into one of the upmarket apartments, you will age overnight....
Jack