Hof ter Hulst

Former so-called "Stede of Goed ter Hulst", now farm "Hof ter Hulst". Originally most likely a late medieval site with moat and castle or glorious residence, to be identified with the remains mentioned by De Potter and Broeckaert of a castle on the Hoeksken ter Hulst district that used to belong to the lord of Lemberge, Jan-Frans Triest (17th century) and afterwards to the Marquis of Rode. Soil traces (differences in height and plant growth) clearly indicate the former presence of a wide moat around the vast rectangular farmyard, at the foot of the Betsberg and in the vicinity of the Molenbeek. On the front moat next to the street (northeast) is a curious farmhouse with a south-west oriented façade. House of five bays and two storeys with gable roof (Flemish tiles, ridge parallel to the street); year 1730 engraved on the decorated nut beam in the living room (left bay). Other end of the beam with the following inscription: "G.M.D.I. Schellart". It is possible that a member of the Schellart family had what remained of the medieval castle converted into a farmhouse in its current still existing form around 1730. The three right bays of the house contain a (later vaulted) basement with traces of beam holes from a removed wooden ceiling. Behind the strongly peeling façade plaster, the masonry of the three right bays appears to consist of fieldstone and/or rough-cut grey natural stone and large felled corner blocks, probably from a neighbouring quarry of Ledesteen. Construction seam between the third and fourth bays in the strongly closed frame façade on the street side. Possibly originally a small castle of the type motte tower or a tower-like gatehouse to a site located deeper on the moat castle. In the middle of the street façade of the oldest building section, a high closed round arch gate is visible, possibly earlier with drawbridge over the moat. The façade shows traces of a corresponding round arch with an inscribed, brick-sealed round arch door. It is possible that the original building was enlarged between the 15th and 18th centuries into a small castle, which was finally modified again around 1730. The upper floor of the two left bays and the left side façade are built of brick. Natural stone right side façade with brick roofs with wall braids; brick top with two closed topoculi, right shoulder piece on a profiled sandstone console. Natural stone plinth with the street façade, extended on the right against the low extension of the side façade with lectern roof. A rectangular lower window with shutters and a narrower upper window with rebate in the right bay of the street façade. Façade with picked plinth in which on the right three cellar holes with a loose wooden hatch. The two upstairs rooms above with a heavy sandstone cross frame and a narrow arched window with hatch; two narrow rectangular upper windows with rebate and wooden lintel. To the left: a low 18th-century basket arch door next to the pump; two sandstone cross frames superimposed into a spherical frame with wooden intermediate style (upper part closed with brick). Kinked roof overhang above the three right bays resting on a profiled roof base console row; also plastered roof molding. On either side an extension in brick with lectern roof and stable door on the yard side. The only associated company building consisting of a simple brick cross barn with stables is said to have been erected circa 1930 to replace an older building. Reportedly disappeared wooden shed with straw roof.

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