Palace House ( not to be confused with the Palace of Beaulieu in Essex ), which overlooks the village from across Beaulieu River, began in 1204 as the gatehouse to Beaulieu Abbey, and has been the ancestral home of a branch of the Montagu family since 1538, when it was bought from the Crown following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.

At Stoneleigh Abbey in 1808, Repton foreshadowed another nineteenth century development, creating a perfect cricket pitch called ' home lawn ' in front of the west wing and a bowling green lawn between the gatehouse and the house.

The Preparatory School, part of which was designed by Eden Smith, is at the south-west corner of the campus, near which is a home for the Prep headmaster and a small gatehouse.

The castle's gatehouse, the central part of which dates to a rebuild by Edward IV in 1463, is the home to Hertford Town Council.

A purpose-built site on Burton Walks became its permanent home, initially consisting of the main school building, loadgings and a gatehouse at the Leicester Road entrance.

Dibnah's home, a former Victorian gatehouse

He was a cousin of John Evelyn's wife and the diarist visited him at Broad Hinton in 1654, noting that he was living in the manor's gatehouse because he had burnt down his home in order to prevent the Roundheads setting up a garrison there during the Civil War.

Until the mid 19th century, the gatehouse was the scene of annual battles, or " muntlings ", between rival gangs from " Up-Town " – the main town of Monmouth – and Overmonnow or " Cappers ' Town ", so called because it was the traditional home of those who made Monmouth caps.

He demolished the church, as was common practice but, unusually, instead of converting the buildings around the cloister into a home he chose the great gatehouse as the core of his mansion ( compare Wriothesley's other converted monastery at Titchfield Abbey or the conversion of neighbouring Netley Abbey ).

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

Larger gates can be used for a whole building, such as a castle or fortified town, or the actual doors that block entry through the gatehouse.

A marble fireplace in Leicester's gatehouse, with Robert Dudley's initials ( R & L for Robert Leicester ) and the badge of the Order of the Garter.

Colonel Joseph Hawkesworth, responsible for the implementation of the slighting, acquired the estate for himself and converted Leicester's gatehouse into a house ; part of the base court was turned into a farm and many of the remaining buildings were stripped for their raw materials.

The ruined castle continued to be used as a farm, with the gatehouse as the principal dwelling ; the King's Gate was added to the outer bailey wall during this period for the use of farm workers.

Henry was born in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle ( and for that reason was sometimes called Henry of Monmouth ).

The Tudor gatehouse and astrological clock, made for Henry VIII in 1540 ( C on plan above ) Two of the Renaissance bas relief s by Giovanni di Maiano can be seen set into the brickwork.

Visitors can also see the Bishop's private chapel, ruined great hall and the gatehouse with portcullis and drawbridge beside which mute swans ring a bell for food.

In 1923 the gatehouse became a museum, and was used for exhibitions, and meetings, before being presented in 1946 to the National Trust who continue to operate it as the " Cartmel Priory Gatehouse ".

The neighborhood has a gatehouse as well as a set of tennis courts for the residents to utilize.

For a later duke, Robert Adam produced plans for the castle gatehouse and other garden buildings, including an orangery.

The gate tower that forms the entrance is a relatively simple design from the 12th century: the fashion for much grander gatehouse designs began shortly afterwards.

By 1593, John, 8th Lord Maxwell was repairing the castle again, building up the gatehouse for defence against the Johnstones of Annandale, with whom the Maxwells were feuding.

His successor, Henry III also spent large sums on Lancaster: £ 200 in 1243 and £ 250 in 1254 for work on the gatehouse and creating a stone curtain wall.

The fortification is built of local stone and concentric in design, featuring a massive gatehouse that probably once provided high-status accommodation for the castle constable and visiting dignitaries.

Harlech had not apparently been repaired following the 1468 siege, and had become completely dilapidated, with the exception of the gatehouse, which was used for the local assizes.

The use of these rooms has been the subject of academic debate: historian Arnold Taylor argued that the first floor of the gatehouse was used by the constable as living accommodation, with the second floor used by senior visitors ; Jeremy Ashbee has since challenged this interpretation, suggesting the high status accommodation may instead have been located within the inner ward, and the gatehouse used for other purposes.

He is also known for his roles in the TV series Not the Nine O ' Clock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123.

Buildings of the former Lawrence farm, including a barn and gatehouse, were temporarily adapted for college use while a massive fundraising effort was underway.

The gatehouse is the only part of the castle which has gun-loops, and the curtain wall and towers are studded with windows for domestic use rather than military.

The eastern gatehouse now serves as part of the King's High School, a sister institution to Warwick School.

In 1575 a stone gatehouse was constructed, which serves as the present day visitor's entrance.

In Philadelphia it includes the Benjamin Franklin Parkway known as the Museum District, the arterial roadway of the Roosevelt Boulevard and the Southern Boulevard Parkway built as a connecting median of two urban parks that now also serves as the west roadway entrance of the world class centralized Philadelphia Sports Complex and gatehouse entrance of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in South Philadelphia.

The westernmost bastion is taller than the others and serves as a gatehouse.

Under John of Gaunt, the gateway was blocked, and the entrance to the castle carried around to the left via a mantlet wall and tower, rendering the gatehouse a more secure traditional keep.

Probably during the troubles of the Barons ' War a small gatehouse was added in front of the gateway to make a proper gatehouse complete with portcullis.

Part of the gatehouse was removed by the son and heir of Sir Richard ( Sir Henry Williams ( alias Cromwell )) to form the main gateway to Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon, his newly built winter residence.

Under Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl, the castle defences were significantly enhanced in 1330 – 60 on the north eastern side by the addition of a gatehouse, a barbican ( a form of fortified gateway ), and a tower on either side of the reconstructed wall, named Caesar's Tower and Guy's Tower.

The work was carried out between 1245 and 1270, and included the construction of a towered curtain wall, a gatehouse of considerable size with two large towers, two smaller gatehouses, a small watergate, a small gateway into the city, a chapel, and a new stone keep, first known as the King's, later Clifford's, Tower.

The east gateway was a simple wide gap in the defences with a timber gatehouse ( the south-west gateway has not been excavated ).

Great Gate is an impressive 14th century stone gatehouse, designed to be the gateway for the Great Courtyard.

The rest of Kenilworth Castle's interior is divided into three areas: the base court, stretching between Mortimer's Tower and Leicester's gatehouse ; the left-hand court, stretching south-west around the outside of the inner court ; and the right-hand court, to the north-west of the inner court.

The interior of Leicester's gatehouse, converted into a domestic house by Colonel Hawkesworth after the English Civil War.

On the first floor the gatehouse was divided into three rooms, with the central one controlling the portcullis mechanism.

Only foundations remain of the original gatehouse, facing east into the now-vanished outer ward.

A short passage that led into the cloister still exists ; this, and a fourteenth century gatehouse, are the only surviving monastic buildings.

The gatehouse has two upper floors, broken up into various rooms.

The archway was later blocked and the gatehouse converted into a keep.

The entrypoint became a sunken gatehouse in the inner face of the ditch, reached by a curving ramp that gave access to the gate via a rolling bridge that could be withdrawn into the gatehouse.

Later in the year he was committed to the gatehouse, and then sent into confinement in Hampshire, from which he was liberated just before the meeting of the third parliament of the reign, in which he once more rendered useful but unobtrusive assistance to his leaders.

The ceiling of the passage through the gatehouse into the castle is vaulted and pierced with murder-holes.

These included a chapel, a porch going into the great hall from the great chamber ( which was probably the large dining room ), a wardrobe, the Lord's chamber and outer chamber, the Lady's chamber, a bakehouse, brewhouse, pantry, washhouse and low washhouse, a round tower, a square tower and a turret, round towers on either side of the gatehouse and walls running along the waterside, a porter's lodge, a dungeon, a square room, little kitchen, old kitchen, a kennel and a range of stables.

The northern enclosure, previously defended by an earthwork, was built into a large outer bailey, with four projecting towers and a gatehouse on its eastern corner.

In the Middle Ages, the authority of the City of London Corporation reached beyond the city's ancient walls in several places ( the Liberties of London ); to regulate trade into the city, barriers were erected on the major roads wherever the true boundary was a substantial distance from the old gatehouse.

Apart from the keep the main structures surviving in the castle consist of the following: an early 14th century three towered fore work defending the keep entrance and including stables within it and which was accessed by a stone causeway crossing the partly in filled ditch of the earlier ringwork ; a huge late 13th-century three aisled great hall with an under croft beneath its east end opening via a water gate to the river ; a stout defensive tower turned into a solar in the late 13th century at the northern angle of the castle ; a smaller aisled hall added to the east end of the great hall in the 14th or 15th century ; a building ( possibly the mint ) added to the east end of the latter hall ; two 15th-or 16th-century stone buildings added inside the town gatehouse, 17th-century buildings added to the end of the hall range and to the north side of the keep and a series of lime kilns, one dating from the late 12th century the remainder from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Though neglected for many years and almost torn down, Willow Cottage has recently undergone a $ 2. 2 million restoration and renovation into a Chatham University gatehouse and guesthouse.

A visitor would have needed to circle the Great Tower and the moat, before coming in through the gatehouse, into the Pitched Stone Court, around the edge of the communal hall, before reaching the previously hidden, and more refined, inner Fountain Court.

By the 14th century a bascule arrangement was provided by lifting arms ( called " gaffs ") above and parallel to the bridge deck whose ends were linked by chains to the lifting end of the bridge ; in the raised position the gaffs would fit into slots in the gatehouse wall (" rainures ") which can often still be seen, as at Herstmonceux Castle.

They later moved into a Victorian gatehouse on the Earl of Bradford's estate, just outside Bolton.

Inside the middle gatehouse ( which was also built in 1625 and enlarged in 1761 – 62 ), the path makes a 180 ° turn and leads up to the drawbridge and through the inner gatehouse into the inner bailey.