Castle De Roo

Fire Street Nos. 91-93. Castle so-called "De Roo" or "Castle Coffyn", after the current occupant (no. 91) with coach house and neerhof (no. 93). Located in a castle park delimited by country roads with a pillory from 1783 in the southeast corner. Park, castle and farm are included in the protected *Sint-Pietersveld, protected by M.B. of 24/06/2002. History. On the primitive land register plan (ca. 1830) the so-called Disveld already shows buildings consisting of a farm with a country building and a furnace house to the south of it. According to the mutation state of 1865, the Bruges family De Roo, then large landowners in Doomkerke, owns the domain. Against the existing farm house, a country building is built as a country residence and the whole is divided into two entities (farm and country house). The eastern part was completely rebuilt around 1867 into a small castle with two corner towers and a coach house added to the south of it. (That the corner towers, cf. the literature, would date from 1920 is not in line with the cadastre drawing of 1867 where the towers are clearly already indicated). Built in reddish-brown brick, from locally quarried clay, baked in an outdoor oven located behind the church. On the neerhof, the farmhouse on the west side is expanded with an outbuilding. Ca. In 1872, the mansion and the farm were united and about 1883 they were split up again. Then the farmhouse is expanded and a "wash house" is built to the south of the mansion. Around 1891, the two houses were separated again and a conservatory connected the "wash house" (now listed as a house) with the castle. During the First World War stay of German soldiers. Eventually, yard and castle domain were finally split around 1931 cf. current. Description. Entirely of rural house (castle) with adjoining farmhouse with outbuildings on the west side and a coach house to the south. The castle park is surrounded by wegels and is accessible on the north and south side via iron gates encased in round brick pillars, right pillar on the south side with statue niche. On the left a narrower person access with gate. Castle (There was no possibility of site visits and only published, old photos could be used for the description). Current view of ca. 1867. The castle – rather a spacious rural house with battlements – of two storeys built in locally baked, anchored reddish-brown brick under hipped roof (black, mechanical tiles) with roof rider. Use of red brick for the frames of the wall openings. Rectangular floor plan with two octagonal, crenellated towers at the corners of the façade. Symmetrically elaborated façade of five bays encased in basket arches separated by gable-high wall dams and crenellated parapet. Central door staircase with a door window above and roof window with neo-baroque stepped gable. Basket-arched wall openings with possibly preserved joinery and shuttered or non-shuttered windows. The castle would have an ice cellar with date stone 1868. It is not clear whether it is still present. Coach house Ca. 1867 built against the cross barn of the neerhof. Low brick construction under hipped roof (mechanical tiles) and central bay under right-angled gable roof. Neerhof Loose components around a grazed yard, created in phases. To the north of the yard, leaning against the manor, is the house, perhaps dating from the late 18th-early 19th century. Is indicated on the primitive land register plan (ca. 1830). Low double house of three bays under gable roof (black, mechanical tiles). White-painted façade above grey-plastered plinth with imitation joints. Wall dams flank façade and door. Arched window in the right travee with preserved joinery, large rod division and originally shuttered cf. thumbs. Tiled sidewalk. To the south of the yard is the (originally detached) cross barn with stables against which the coach house was built in 1867. Probably dates from the same period as the house. Anchored, white-painted brick construction under tiled gable roof and above plinth. To the east of the yard the "wash house" of ca. 1883, temporarily converted into a house of which the window and the door on the left still bear witness. Today utility building in white painted brick above plinth and under hipped roof (Flemish tiles). Conservatory between "laundry house" and country house, built ca. 1891. White-painted brick building above plinth, below semicircular, glass roof and with two large, curious, oval windows. Park Partly surrounded by a moat park forest with strongly modelled relief, possibly with ice cellar. Central sunken lawn and neglected tennis court. Park forest belts with ash, horse chestnut, American oak, beech, maple and remarkable weeping beech and undergrowth with, among other things, holly. In the southeast corner of the park is a pillory from 1783. Originating from the lordship "Willecomme" on the territory of Tielt (cf. Tielt, Willekomstraat no. 5) and transferred more than a century ago to the castle domain here. The then owner of the domain and pillory in Tielt is then the van der Linden d'Hoogvorst family who has connections with the De Roo family, including in the National Congress in Brussels. Bluestone pillory on pedestal, with polygonal shaft and crowned by coat of arms of Ignace-François van der Linden d'Hoogvorst, the last lord of Willecomme. Shield head with three sloping hammers, baron's crown and two climbing lions. ARCHIVE R-O WEST FLANDERS - IMMOVABLE HERITAGE, Archive no., W/01796. LAND REGISTRY ARCHIVE WEST FLANDERS, 207: Mutation sketches, Ruiselede, 1865/127, 1867/14, 1872/16, 1883/15, 1891/71, 1931/86. BRAET M., Registrar Hugo De Roo-Winnebroot and his descendants in Ruiselede, Tielt and Bruges (1700-1900), in Oud Ruysselede. Heemkundig Tijdschrift Doomkerke, Kruiskerke, Ruiselede, jg. 21, no. 3, 2005, p. 83, p. 105, p. 107. BRAET M., Cover photo: castle de Roo in Doomkerke, in Oud Ruysselede. Heemkundig Tijdschrift Doomkerke, Kruiskerke, Ruiselede, jg. 21, no. 3, 2005, p. 82. BRAET M., About the De Roo family, the St.-Louis boys' school and the banquet hall at Doomkerke, in Oud Ruysselede. Heemkundig Tijdschrift Doomkerke, Kruiskerke, Ruiselede, jg. 23, no. 3, 2006, p. 109-118. BRAET M., Rusleda 900 years. A chronicle 1106-2006, in Oud Ruysselede. Heemkundig Tijdschrift Doomkerke, Kruiskerke, Ruiselede, jg. 23, no. 4, 2006, p. 205. BRAET M., "Zwart Goed" and their buyers in Ruiselede, in Oud Ruysselede. Heemkundig Tijdschrift Doomkerke, Kruiskerke, Ruiselede, jg. 16, no. 3, 1999, p. 140. DEGUFFROY G., DEPREDOMME J., Ruiseleed place names, in Oud Ruysselede. 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