In Fig. 65, is shown an elevation of a lodge in the Italian style, with projecting eaves supported by cantilevers or brackets, round-headed windows with balconies, characteristic porch, and other leading features of this style. Mr. Repton has stated it as a principle in the composition of residences, that neither the house should be visible from the entrance nor the entrance from the house, if there be sufficient distance between them to make the approach through varied grounds, or a park, and not immediately into a court-yard.
Entrance lodges, and indeed all small ornamental buildings, should be supported, and partially concealed, by trees and foliage; naked walls, in the country, hardly admitting of an apology in any case, but especially when the building is ornamental, and should be considered part of a whole, grouping with other objects in rural landscape.
