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AN OLD ENGLISH GATE LODGE. 
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RURAL AFFAIRS. 
Article X. DESIGN FOR AN OLD ENGLISH GATE LODGE. By A. B. L. 
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 enterprize 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 visitor 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. It is the mansion that must determine the magni¬ 
tude, 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 disappoint¬ 
ment as keenly as in any case of anticipated pleasure denied us. 
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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 latter case, the gate itself 
should be of course a subordinate object. The double lodge gateway 
would be best applied to palaces and large mansions; and the single 
