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Latitude: 55.9353 / 55°56'6"N
Longitude: -3.0868 / 3°5'12"W
OS Eastings: 332204
OS Northings: 671889
OS Grid: NT322718
Mapcode National: GBR 2D.Z2GP
Mapcode Global: WH6SV.K2BS
Plus Code: 9C7RWWP7+47
Entry Name: Newcraighall Miners' Welfare Society, Whitehill Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Newcraighall, 85, 87 Whitehill Street, Miners Welfare Society
Listing Date: 19 September 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391216
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44605
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391216
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Alexander Allan, 1925. 2 storey, 8 bay, symmetrical T plan miners welfare institute with classical details. Cream rubble sandstone with polished red sandstone dressings.
NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 depressed arches at ground in advanced and gabled central bay; bipartite windows with round-headed pediments above; louvred oculus set in gablehead; ball finials to skewputts and gablehead. Paired single windows to both floors in flanking bays. Bipartite windows to both floors in remaining bays.
SE ELEVATION: 2 bay. Doorway at ground in bay to outer left; bipartite windows above and in bay to outer right.
NW ELEVATION: 3 bay. Canopy over opening at ground in bay to outer right. Single window to central bay. Bipartite windows in remaining bays.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: large piend-roofed wing advanced to centre. Later single storey wing to centre. Flat-roofed additions to left and right. Replacement glazing. Grey slate piended roof; shouldered wallhead stacks.
One of the first Miners Welfares in Scotland to result from the recommendations of the Sankey Commission in 1920 that a penny per ton of coal should be levied "for purposes connected with the social well being, recreation and conditions of living of mineworkers". The building originally comprised a large assembly hall, a billiard room, a reading room and library, and quickly formed an important part of community life in the mining village.
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