Publication Account
Date 2006
Event ID 1019726
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019726
The New Inn was built towards the end of the century by the Earl of Lauderdale, in competition to the St George Hotel. It has a Roman Doric porch and still existing side archway giving access to a coach-house. The New Inn is merely one of several Georgian buildings in High Street, one of the most notable being nos 58--60, with an impressive frontage and a pair of bull's-eye lights.
The Duke of Rutland was also impressed when he arrived in Dunbar to stay at the New Inn; it was here that the army officers billeted in Dunbar had their quarters. He was 'ushered into a spacious room, where ... a ball [was] held once a week, under the patronage of Sir James Stewart who commands an encampment in the neighbourhood'.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Dunbar: Archaeology and Development’, (2006).