AN ENTRANCE LODGE OR COTTAGE.

DESIGN No. 1.

PERSPECTIVE VIEW, ELEVATION, GROUND PLAN, — PLATE I.

The Gates here shown are of the simplest description, and hardly offerany thing that can be termed architectural design, they being merelyhung between four low stone piers; yet even an entrance of this unpre-tending character, may acquire sufficient importance from the Lodgeattached to it. In this design, the latter is a more conspicuous featurethan it is usual to render double Lodges, which are for the most partmade very subordinate to the gateway itself, each of them being littlemore than a single and very confined apartment. The mode of treat-ment for such subjects which is here adopted, will, perhaps, be foundpreferable upon the whole to the one just alluded to; at least for any of thestyles of old English architecture. To say nothing of their inconveni-ence, and also their uncomfortable appearance as habitations, two smallcottages with a gateway between them have an air of too great formality,not without one of littleness likewise; and unless there be some kindof arched Gateway or Gatehouse to connect them, they have withal asolitary look. Two buildings, again, each of which shall have theappearance of being fit for a dwelling, especially if combined with aGatehouse, would render the entire elevation by far too extensive, unlessthe mansion itself were upon a very large scale, and of correspondingstateliness in its architecture.

Whether these remarks be correct or not, the reader may easily deter-mine for himself, by imagining a similar building placed on the otherside of the gate; in which case, the Lodges might be somewhat abridgedby omitting the smaller room and the one above it, and letting the chim-ney terminate that end of the building; and the irregularity thus producedin the larger elevation, would be compensated by a duplicate elevationon the other side of the roadway, which would occasion what has beentermed the “ uniformity of irregularity.”