The Lodge is a sandstone cottage that stands beside the Government House Gate entrance of the Royal Botanic Gardens, leading to Government House. It was designed by Mortimer Lewis in the Gothic architectural style, as an exact copy of one of the lodges at the entrance gates of the Royal Park at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. The sandstone cottage was built in 1846 as the guardhouse of Government House and was originally sited at the main entrance on Macquarie Street. It moved to its present location in 1915 when the stables were converted to the Conservatorium of Music.
A brilliant blue winter’s sky above the Conservatorium Gate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, close to Macquarie Street and beside the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The surrounding bushes in bloom are adding a bit of colour at this time of year.