White Castle

So-called "White Castle". In the 19th century subsequently owned by M. Van Overloop, H. Cardon, P. Cardon-Dons de Lovendeghem, and Marquis de Wavrin. Beautifully situated country house from the 18th century in a circular rampart. Stone footbridges with balustrades (20th century?) and decorative vases at the front and back. Garden layout partly in French style with a rectangular pond. Plastered double house of five bays and two stories under a gabled roof (tiles), with a left side gable wall featuring braid work. Rectangular windows and round-arched door, reduced according to remaining traces. Presumably a later U-shaped extended rear building of seven bays and three stories under a flat roof; largely overgrown with ivy. Round-arched door windows with fanlight on the ground floor, central Venetian window, and rectangular upper windows with shutters. Interior. Original staircase with oak newel post adorned with a vase. To the east, service building, former carriage house, of five bays with round-arched doors, mostly bricked up in the rear façade and provided with pseudo transoms with grid division. To the west, restored 18th-century farmyard with later modifications on an L-shaped ground plan and a whitened 19th-century dovecote with stepped gables in front of it. Former farmhouse with a whitewashed façade on a pebbled plinth beneath a bent gabled roof (tiles, ridge parallel to the street). Rectangular windows with shutters equipped with light openings. Door set in a more recently installed frame of gray bricks. Perpendicular stables built on with a passage between both sections to the rear.

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