Lacourt Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Lacourt estate, in Hofstade (municipality of Zemst, Tervuursesteenweg 183), combines the 1934 villa ‘All Right’ with a landscape park of about 1.6 ha laid out around 1870. It descends from the estate of Louis de Meester de Tilbourg, already shown on the Ferraris map. His heir, Count Alfred Cornet d’Elzius de Peissant, first mayor of Hofstade, enlarged the park and renovated the neoclassical manor house around 1885. This former Cornet château, severely damaged by fire during the First World War, was cleared around 1930. The park was then acquired by René Lacourt, a wine merchant from Willebroek, who commissioned the present villa in 1934. It is a late echo of the cottage style, with complex roof volumes, oriel windows, timber brackets and mock half-timbering. Three copper beeches and a pedunculate oak still recall the original tree belts. The site has been recognised as architectural heritage since 8 October 2021.