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Smoking was not allowed in any part of the club until 1862, when a very small room was made available to smokers. Thereafter permission to smoke was gradually extended to some other rooms. In 1898/89 a third storey was added to the building (previous proposals in 1855 and 1887 had come to nothing), set back from the lower storeys. The architect was T.E.Collcutt. The new rooms included a smoking room.