AN OLD ENGLISH GATE LODGE. 
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lodge gateway, and the detached lodge and gate, would suit small 
mansions and villas. The accompanying sketch of a detached lodge, 
(Fig. 52,) alter the old English manner, would be suitable for a 
small villa in the Elizabethian, or any other old English style. The 
ground plan (Fig. 53) has an entrance-porch ( a ); gate-keeper’s sit¬ 
ting-room (6); closet for tools, &c. (c); lobby and stair-case ( d ) ; 
closet under the stairs (c) ; back-kitchen for cooking and washing, as 
(/) ; pantry (y); parlour, with a cupboard beside the fire place ( h) ; 
trellis work porch communicating with the garden (i) ; water-closet 
(£) ; and open shed for wood, &c. (/). 
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Scale , | of an inch to ten feet. 
In the chamber floor, there is a bed-room for the man and 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 mate¬ 
rial. The windows to have wooden mullions as shewn by the eleva¬ 
tion 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 com¬ 
fortable 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 of course be 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 instruc¬ 
tion it would afford to the gate-keeper and his family. 
