Porters' lodge
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File:Magdalene Cambridge porters lodge.jpg in Magdalene College, Cambridge.]]
File:Porter%27s_Lodge,_Newholme_Hospital.jpg
A porters' lodge or porter's lodge{{citation |contribution=porter's lodge, n. |title=Oxford English Dictionary |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press }}. (colloquially, plodge{{cite news |last=O’Neill |first=Anne |url=http://www.varsity.co.uk/lifestyle/7414 |title=A Cambridge Dictionary |work=Varsity |location=Cambridge |publisher=Varsity Publications Ltd. |date=2014-08-25 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907154104/http://www.varsity.co.uk/lifestyle/7414 |archivedate=2014-09-07 |accessdate=2014-10-01 }}) is a place near the entrance of a building where one or more porters can be found to respond to student enquiries as well as enquires from the public and direct them around the building. It is particularly associated with university accommodation in the United Kingdom and Canada (such as the majority of colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, York and Toronto).[http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/facilities/porters/ King's College porters' lodge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704080909/http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/facilities/porters/ |date=4 July 2009 }}, King's College, Cambridge.[http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/visitors/tours/grounds/porterslodge.html Tour of the grounds: Porters' Lodge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614012213/http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/visitors/tours/grounds/porterslodge.html |date=14 June 2008 }}, King's College, Cambridge.
Oxbridge porters' lodges typically also house the pigeon-holes for students' and Fellows' mail.
Historically, some hospitals included a porter’s lodge, as with Newholme Hospital in Derbyshire, built for the Hospital porter for purposes of reception, messaging, mail, and myriad other duties.Newhome Hospital at Historic England, Accessed 2 December 2022 at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1148014