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Th 



e entr 



to a 





pi 



generally best marked at an 



branching off from a public road; and where the boundary of 

 a park is 



at 



distance from the road 



dth 



entrance a 



kind 



f private cross-road, a mere Cottage may perhaps be suf 





ficient, of any style of architecture, without reference to the 



styl 



e o 



e 



hou 



an 



proper gate will distinguish it 



an 



entrance to 



ace. But where the gate immediately opens 



* 



into a park, strongly marked, and bounded by a wall or park- 



paling 



Lodge seems more appropriate than a Cottag 



that 



it should partake of the style and character of the mansion 

 seems also to be required by the laws of unity of design > which 

 good taste adopts in every art. If the architecture of the house 



be 



recian, the style of the Lodge should 



e 



th 



e same; as in 



the design for a Lodge at Wingerworth House, page 64, and 

 the annexed sketch for the Entrance to Longnor, where the 



e objected, that the Gothic Cottage 



house is Gothic. 



may 



bears no reference to Wob 



urn Abbey; but that is not 



an 





Entrance Lodge, it is a Cottage near a gate into a wood, at the 

 distance of some miles from the House. 



To mark the Entrance toCobham Hall, the seat of the Earl 

 of Darnley, built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the style and 

 character of the house proposed to be adopted in the Lodge is 

 not the modern Gothic style, with sharp-pointed windows, and 

 a flat slate roof just rising over the battlements, but that which 

 is distinguished by massive square-headed windows, with pin- 

 nacles, mouldings, gables, escutcheons, and the lofty enriched 







chimneys of former days, as shewn at the head of this Fragment 



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