The Rupertswood Gatehouse, iron fence and gates are of state historical and architectural importance as they are probably the most distinctive structures of their type in Victoria.A coloured photograph of the Rupertswood Lodge, iron fence and gates. At the gateway there are double gates and two single gates on either side. The four gateposts are stone with a decorative finish on the top. The double gates are open so the roadway into the Rupertswood estate is visible.clarke, william john (sir), rupertswood gatehouse, salesian college, george evans collection

The building is the former Gate House or Lodge that is at the gates at Rupertswood in Macedon Street. A lodge was often erected at the entrance of a large estate to direct guests to the mansion or reject unauthorised people from entering the property. The presence for a Gatehouse or Lodge erected at the entrance of a larger property was a tradition copied by wealthy landowners in the Colony from one practised by the upper classes in Britain. A coloured photograph of blue stone top storey cottage with a slate roof surrounded by an attractive garden. The building has 3 chimneys and there is a smaller single storey wing added to the building.the lodge, the gatehouse, rupertswood, macedon street

The house in the photograph is the Gatehouse for Rupertswood Mansion. The building of Rupertswood mansion, along with the Lodge, the lake, gardens, grotto, stables and outbuildings, were completed in August 1874, seven months after William John Turner Clarke died at Essendon on 13th January 1874 so he never lived to see his grand mansion completed.Rupertswood Mansion is one of a number of grand homes that wealthy European settlers built in various places in Australia in the nineteenth century.A non-digital coloured photograph of a bluestone two storey cottage with a hipped roof, set in an attractive garden comprising shrubs, trees and flower beds.gatehouses, rupertswood mansion, william j.t. clarke, sunbury