I have built a small "pool type" house on my estate villa. The house has a separate entrance, so where I enter the villa via my secure gates, the villa sits on the side. It has separate rooms and is completely closed off from my garden; you can only enter it from the street. I plan to rent it out to tenants.
The tenants have asked if there is a technical term for this type of property?
Below is a picture of it. You can see the building on the left. (The door and two lights)
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One technical term is a lodge (or estate lodge, or porter's lodge). They were cottages which were adjacent to the main gates of an estate, intended to allow gatekeepers accommodation so they could open the gates as needed.
They could be outside or inside the main gates of the estate. Yours is outside.
Here's another with its principal doorway outside the main gates to the estate: this is the Gate Lodge on the Dalmunzie Estate near Pitlochry.
With the decline in the employment of servants and the need for this accommodation, most of these properties these days are now owned separately from the main estate and its house.