0 a small house at the gate into a castle, park, or other large building or area of land, often lived in by someone employed to take care of it
Visitors to the embassy: the gatehouse leads to the paved entrance court around which the embassy and residence are arranged.
They are all gravely concerned about the castle's future, because its features include what is probably the only surviving gatehouse of its type.
It has a new gatehouse and new gatehouse entrance.
A new gatehouse is being constructed at a cost of some £262,000, to replace the old police gatehouse which has been declared structurally unsound.
He can turn up at the gatehouse of any prison in his diocese unannounced and has the right of admission.
Those works will comprise the removal of tree growth and ivy at the upper levels to the gatehouse and treatment of masonry to prevent its collapse.
The survey revealed that, while the structure of the gatehouse was generally sound, there were loose joints in the masonry at high level that required attention.
The gatehouse is threatened by overgrowth, exposure to the elements, and because for no fewer than 30 years nothing has been done to protect or restore that important monument.
