Charlement acknowledged receipt of the design for this lodge in early April 1768. Chambers replied on 15 April, discussing modifications to the drawings. No other correspondence mentions the project, and there is no evidence that the project was executed. The drawings and correspondence do not specify the location of the proposed lodge, but its obvious location would have been the Earl's country estate at Roxborough.

Chambers was born in Sweden and died in London. He travelled widely, visiting China, and studied architecture at the Ecole des Arts, Paris, from 1749 and in Italy from 1750 to 1755. Many of his drawings from this period are contained in his important 'Franco-Italian' album, held in the V&A. Chambers moved to London in 1755 and published his influential Treatise on Civil Architecture in 1759. Chambers demonstrated the breadth of his style in buildings such as Gower (later Carrington) House and Melbourne House, London, in such country houses as Duddingston, Scotland, and in the garden architecture he designed for Wilton House, Wiltshire, and at Kew Gardens. He became head of government building in 1782, and in this capacity built Somerset House, London.