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The Avouerie d'Anthisnes, also known as the Vieux Château or château de Wal, is the former seat of the avouerie and the residence of the avoué of Anthisnes, set beside the road on the Avenue de l'Abbaye. The complex combines a tall square keep of five storeys, built of irregular limestone rubble and dated to the 13th century, with a sturdy Liège Renaissance-style residential wing added in 1648 by Godefroid d'Antine and his wife Élisabeth de Fraipont, whose coat of arms adorns the eastern façade. This wing was flanked by four square towers; the two northern towers and part of the manor house were lost in the fire of 1897. The keep retains its original low-pitched roof, heightened by a mansard pavilion in the 18th century, and its interior, very spartan, features powerful vaulted cellars, an ancient floor of pebbles set on edge and a monumental 17th-century oak staircase. Entrusted in 946 to the dukes of Limburg and then, in 1292, to the d'Antine family, the avouerie subsequently passed to the de Wal family and then, in 1851, to the barons de Waha-Baillonville. The building is listed; a major restoration was inaugurated in 2025, and the site, together with the neighbouring Brassine, now serves as a tourist and community venue.
