gatehousen.
/ˈɡeɪthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪtˌhaʊs/ 1. A house (for a servant or gatekeeper) at or over the entrance of a park or other enclosure; a lodge.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation > lodgehouse or gatehouse
gatehousec1380
porter's lodge1471
lodge1504
gate-room1702
gate-lodge1922
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 15 Grete cost of kechenes and ȝate housis.
1458 Visit. St. Paul's Churches (Camden) 99 Vnum gattehous, et vnum hoghous.
c1543 in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. 79 The great quadrangle with a gatehous.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iii. xvii. 205 The Gate-house and Hall swarmed with troupes.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 296 The gate-house or tower of Layer-Marney-hall.
1835 W. Irving Newstead Abbey in Crayon Misc. II. 158 An arched way led through the centre of the gatehouse.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Yat-house, a lodge on an archway through which you drive into a court-yard.
2. The apartment over the gate of a city or palace, often strongly built, and hence used as a prison; spec. that over the gate of the palace of Westminster.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > gate > [noun] > gatehouse
gatehouse1577
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1574/1 The kings maiesty..at that time sate in his new gate house [1587 gatehouse] at his palayce of Westminster, where he viewed all the whole companie.
1637 News-lett. C. Rossingham in S. Gardiner Documents Proc. against W. Prynne (1877) 86 As Doctor Bastwicke came from the gatehouse towards the pallace the light common people strowed herbes and flowers before him.
1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 275 One Newton a Popish Priest was committed to the Gate-House.
1647 Ld. Clarendon Hist. Rebellion vii. §139 [The king's] messenger..was..by the Houses committed to the Gate~house.
1895 Murray's Handbk. Hertfordsh. etc. 81 [St. Alban's] The Abbey Gate House, the only other relic left of the monastery, stands about 50 yards W. of the Cathedral.
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