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is certainly the ultimatum of improvements in gate lodges ; 

 and where it cannot be attained, something may still be 

 done towards amelioration, by placing the gate within a 

 convenient distance, instead of half a dozen rods apart 

 from the lodge, as is frequently done. 



That the entrance lodge should correspond in style with 

 the mansion, is a maxim insisted upon by all writers on 

 Rural Architecture. Where the latter is built in a mixed 

 style, there is more latitude allowed in the choice of forms 

 for the lodge, which may be considered more as a thing by 

 itself. But where the dwelling is a strictly architectural 

 composition, the lodge should correspond in style, and bear 

 evidence of emanating from the same mind. A variation 

 of the same style may be adopted with pleasing effect, as a 



[Fig. 56. Plan for opening the gate from the interior of the Lodge.] 



lodge in the form of the old English cottage for a castellated 



which is opened and shut by the motion of the winch, without obliging tno 

 inmates to leave the house. 



A very convenient way we have found of opening a gate from a lodge, when 

 at right angles to each other, is by parsing a light chain from the latch of the gate 

 through the walls of the house into the usual sitting-room -here to turn on a 

 crank, or simply pulled hand over hand, as the sailors term it. The gate 

 being hung a little out of plumb, is held open from the house, by the chain, 

 until a carriage passes, and faljs back again, from its own inclination, against a 

 jog, or projection in the gate-pier to receive it. H. W. S. 



