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Le château en bref
The Blauw Huys estate, at Bosstraat 85-89 in Drongen (Ghent), comprises a late neoclassical château, a porter's lodge attached to an orangery, a former carriage house and a large landscaped park with a pond. First mentioned in 1716, the château was rebuilt in 1807 for Van de Woestijne-Clemmen to a design by Dutry senior, then enlarged in 1817 to plans by J.B. Van de Cappelle. Two lateral wings were added around 1874, and the façade of the left wing was demolished around 1930. In the nineteenth century, the property passed to the Van den Hecke family. The H-shaped building has two storeys, an Ionic colonnade and projecting wings; the Empire-style orangery dates from 1845. The park, probably laid out in the first half of the nineteenth century, extends a rectangular pond westward; that pond already appears on the Ferraris map (1778). An enclosed kitchen garden lies south of the entrance gate. The château and the orangery have been protected as monuments since 1994.