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.
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