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gate house
A structure built over and flanking a gateway, and common in olden times at the more important entrances of a city, castle, monastery, abbey, or college. The Gate House of Westminster, London, built in 1370, was used as a prison. This was demolished in 1776, but one of its walls remained until 1836.
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