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PLAN AND DESCRIPTION OF A GATE LODGE TO A 
COUNTRY RESIDENCE. 
The situation of the entrance-gate and lodge to a country residence must depend 
chiefly upon the locality of the place, but frequently upon the judgment of the 
landscape gardener in adopting the proper situation with reference to the park, 
and for the approach-road. The picturesque appearance, however, of the lodge, 
must depend on the artist’s skill as an architect. The eye of taste is frequently 
offended by the shapeless, cold, and uninviting appearance of the gate lodge, which 
bespeaks poverty and a want of enterprise in the owner ; and we are ready to turn 
away from it under the impression that, if we approach, our welcome will be but 
cold and heartless ; while, on the other hand, the neat, light, picturesque lodge 
invites the visiter to enter the abode of cheerfulness and plenty. But the architect, 
or landscape gardener, with superior taste, unless balanced by an equal degree of 
judgment, is as liable to err in erecting a fine lodge as an unseemly one. 
Fig. 1. 
It is the mansion that must determine the magnitude, the style, and character of 
the lodge ; for when we enter by a fine architectural gateway, approach the road by 
many windings and turnings, and the plain, unrelieved, white-washed, cubical- 
shaped mansion bursts upon our view, we feel the sensation of disappointment 
as keenly as in any case of anticipated pleasure denied us. The gate lodge may be 
applied in different ways : either by being united with the gate, and having a lodge 
on each side, with footways, and forming one architectural whole by a single lodge 
joined to the gateway, or by a detached lodge. In the later case, the gate itself 
