Gate Lodge

Historical image of the Gate Lodge, with the former Mountain Lodge in the background.
Gate Lodge
The back of the building
This article is for a specific Gatelodge. For the more general use of a room that allows access to a fortification or prison, see Sally port.


Gate Lodge (舊總督山頂別墅守衛室) is a small house located at Mount Austin Road on Victoria Peak, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Gate Lodge was built between 1900 and 1902. It is in Renaissance style.

It was a part of the former complex known as Mountain Lodge. The main Mountain Lodge was home to the then Governor of Hong Kong, but it no longer exists as it was demolished in 1946. The Gate Lodge remains, but it is not used as an official residence.

The Gate Lodge originally served as living quarters for the keeper of Mountain Lodge. It was declared as a monument in 1995 and it is now preserved in Victoria Peak Garden and used as a site office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

Future development

To put the building to meaningful use and leverage its historical legacy, Senior Government Architect Raymond Fung said it will be used as a public gallery.

"What we are going to do is to open this gate door, so that you can enter this 100 square feet (9.3 m2) space inside where we will put pictures and descriptions about the history of Victoria City and also Hong Kong in general, therefore giving information of our history to visitors."[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Visitors' hotspot to undergo facelift", news.gov.hk 25 September 2005 (archive)

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Coordinates: 22°16′28″N 114°08′45″E / 22.27434°N 114.14572°E