Strouts was guided by the lead that Mountfort had taken with the Christchurch Club a decade earlier and also chose Italianate architecture as the style for the building, to be erected on a site on the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Worcester Street.

[2] In 2004, the Canterbury Club sold neighbouring land to Latitude Group for a reported NZ$4M, raising funds to do restoration work on the historic building.

Latitude Group constructed Club Tower on the purchased site, named in reference to the history of the land.

[2] Outside the front door on the Cambridge Terrace frontage, two further heritage items are registered as Category II: a gas light, and a hitching post.

The lamp was still run on gas for many years after the gasworks closed in 1985, but in the 1990s, the Canterbury Club converted it to an electric light.