PLAN OF A GATE LODGE TO A COUNTRY RESIDENCE. 
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should be of course a subordinate object. The double lodge gateway would be best 
applied to palaces and large mansions ; and the single lodge gateway, and the 
detached lodge and gate would suit small mansions and villas. The accompanying 
sketch of a detached lodge (fig. 1), after the old English manner, would be suitable 
for a small villa in the Elizabethan, or any other old English style. The ground 
plan (fig. 2) has an entrance-porch ( a ) ; gate-keeper’s sitting-room (6) ; closet for 
tools, &c. (c) ; lobby and staircase ( d ) ; closet under the stairs ( e ) ; back-kitchen 
for cooking and washing (f) ; pantry ( g ) ; parlour, with a cupboard beside fire- 
place (Ji) ; trellis work porch communicating with the garden (i) ; water-closet ( k ); 
and open shed for wood, &c. (/). 
Fig. 2. 
In the chamber floor, there is a bed-room for the man and his wife ; and two 
smaller bed-rooms for male and female children. 
The walls of this building may be of brick- work, rough-cast externally ; and the 
roof covered with reeds in the usual manner ; or, perhaps, slates or painted tiles 
would be preferable, though not so characteristic, as being less liable to accident 
by fire. The barge boards and pendants should be of oak, or at least wood- 
work painted to imitate that material. The windows to have wooden mullions as 
shewn by the elevation, painted of an oak colour, and the exterior doors to have the 
old English character, which may be done by nailing square pieces of wood 
diagonally on the outer surface, to imitate the heads of large nails. This lodge, if 
neatly finished internally, would make a comfortable little habitation ; and if 
erected in the manner above described, about twenty miles from London, where 
labour is cheap, the expense would be about 186/. There should be of course a 
little garden behind the lodge, to supply the occupants with vegetables ; and the 
border immediately round the house might be tastefully laid out with flowers, both 
for the sake of neatness, and the pleasure and instruction it would afford to the 
gate-keeper and his family. The above was furnished us by one of our corre- 
spondents to the Horticultural Register, and inserted in that work, vol. ii., p. 404. 
