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 --
The main remnant of the chateau is the gatehouse: a rectangular tower of solid appearance rebuilt in the 16th century.
Access to the gatehouse used to be via a drawbridge but it has since been replaced by a flagged causeway.
The main building was surrounded by a moat and accessible only over a wooden bridge via a gatehouse on an island.
After this there was a gatehouse, ovens, hall and the storehouses built.
The outlet tower and gatehouse were built in 1917, together with the spillway.
The lodge fronts on a court, entered through a gatehouse and originally flanked by wings housing guest rooms.
The roofs were taken from the towers, the parapets were destroyed and the large gatehouse was dismantled.
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.
