Cally House is a plain granite building, in a park of recent formation, of great extent, of considerable variety of surface, and abundantly clothed with wood. The situation of the house, near an estuary formed by the mouth of the river. Fleet, is very fine; but, unfortunately, the entrance front is on the wrong side, and none of the windows of the principal rooms look towards the river. All the works executed about Cally and the village of Gatehouse appear to be of the most substantial kind; but they are not all in that high and finished taste that we expected to find them. The masses of trees in the park are in many places too formal and unconnected; and there are single trees which neither group with them nor with one another. Much might be done in this park by the introduction, near the masses, of a few small groups of trees of different sizes, with thorns and other shrubs; by opening the outline of the masses; and, above all, by thinning them. The scenery about the house, and the views, from its entrance front, of the richly wooded country beyond the river, with the mountains and their rocky summits on the one hand, and the sea on the other, are unequalled by any thing of the kind in this part of the country. [Editor's Note: (2005) There is a Cally Palace Hotel, a nursery and a garden at Gatehouse of Fleet]
