King considers evidence for the execution of lodge houses and entrance gates to the north and east of Brasted Place. SM Adam volume 51/51, a design for the north lodge, survives and forming part of an entrance way, with central carriage gates and side gates. King notes that a lodge house survives on the site, complete with a tripartite bow window, alongside quadrant walls with niches, and two gate piers. However King indicates inconsistencies in the executed design, the lodge is a little deeper in form, although it may have been extended at a later date. The construction of the surviving lodge is unusual, as it utilises a mixture of stone and brick in a manner King describes as ‘un-Adamesque’. As a result he suggests that the lodges may have been executed to Adam’s designs, but at a later date.

Turton’s surviving letter discussing Adam’s work and accounts for Brasted, makes reference to an east lodge, for which there are no surviving designs. King notes surviving evidence of a lodge structure to the east of the house, but that it is clearly post-Adam in date. Alongside the ruins of this structure however, a set of posts for an entrance survive, and there are a number of surviving designs for a set of carriage gates. It is possible that Adam constructed an earlier lodge with carriage gates, but that this has since been removed.

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