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125:. In 1953 the New and University Clubs amalgamated. Whilst extensive alterations and redecoration were carried out, there remained unresolved the intention to create a ladies’ annexe. The club was completely rebuilt in the 1960s to a modern design by Alan Reiach, Eric Hall and Partners, incorporating the recommendations of the Princes Street Panel which included the aspiration for a continuous first-floor walkway along Princes Street. The new building introduced a Ladies’ "Side" with a Ladies' Bar, Ladies’ Drawing Room and Ladies’ Dining Room. The cost of demolition and re-build was paid for by an insurance company who gained 125 year leases on the three shops below the club's main floors. The club negotiated a lease of the St Andrew’s Hotel as a temporary clubhouse whilst the Princes Street building was demolished and rebuilt. On re-building, the club re-constructed the original Lorimer panelling within the new Dining Room. The new clubhouse opened for lunch on Monday 15 December 1969. 19: 91: 141:
on 18 March 1996 as a category A listed building. Category A includes buildings which are of national or international architectural significance. Historic Scotland describe the New Club premises as the finest example of a Princes Street Panel building. The Princes Street façade, faced with plate
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was the preferred course of action. Having abandoned the tavern in Shakespeare Square, the club was now obliged to find temporary quarters in Fortune’s Tontine Tavern at 5 Princes Street before finding a new home, in August 1809, at 3 St Andrew Square.
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Ladies were first admitted as Associate Members to the club on 25 March 1970 (Lady Day). Only wives of Members could be elected until October 2010, when ladies were permitted full membership and their husbands could join as Associate Members.
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became the Patron of the Club in 1952 and held that position until his death in 2021; in 2012 a large window was installed in the entrance to the Club to mark his sixtieth anniversary as patron and the
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drew up a scheme to extend the Room by 9 feet (2.7 m), with new windows being inserted and the walls adorned by oak panelling with inset portraits.
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sections, is described as "very carefully composed". The building is one of around 60 post-Second World War listed buildings in Edinburgh.
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The New Club was founded on 1 February 1787, only three weeks after the idea had been conceived at a Caledonian Hunt Ball held at the
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Subsequently, numbers 84 and 85 Princes Street were purchased, redesigned and rebuilt, to a design by
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Numbers 84–87 Princes Street, incorporating the New Club, were listed by
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The original New Club building on Princes Street, designed by David Bryce
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List of Category A listed buildings in the New Town, Edinburgh
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from 1809 until 1837, when it moved to purpose-built rooms on
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designed New Town. It was enlarged in 1859 to a design by
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List of post-war Category A listed buildings in Scotland
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social club
New Town
Edinburgh
Scotland
St Andrew Square
Princes Street
Reiach and Hall
category A listed building
New Assembly Rooms
George Street
Princes Street
St Andrew Square

William Burn
James Craig
David Bryce
Sir Robert Lorimer
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Queen's Diamond Jubillee
Historic Scotland
Rubislaw
cantilevered
DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments
List of Category A listed buildings in the New Town, Edinburgh
List of post-war Category A listed buildings in Scotland
Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings


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