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Kasteel Tallon is a late nineteenth-century manor house at Steenstraat 6-8, north of the centre of Geetbets (Flemish Brabant), on the former locality of Molenkouter. It was built in 1879 for Arnold Tallon, a notary and, from 1885, mayor of the municipality. Tallon also acquired a farm dating from 1838 that bordered the Steenstraat. He had part of it demolished and converted the remainder into accommodation for a gardener or caretaker.
The main house is a symmetrical double residence of five bays and two storeys, its rendered façades painted white under a slate roof. Its only decoration consists of rusticated pilasters between the bays of the ground floor. The Mansard roof most likely resulted from a alteration in 1891, which probably replaced an original mezzanine. The complex includes an attached annex, a carriage house on the edge of the Oudestraat, a small building of around 1914 that probably housed an acetylene gas installation for lighting, and a low wing added in 1950.
The pleasure garden, of about one hectare, was laid out in the 1880s and already appears on the 1886 état-major map. Its double-loop paths are still in use. An elongated mound along the eastern edge of the park still bears copper beeches and an original plane tree, while a wrought-iron gate between brick piers marks the former entrance at the corner of the Oudestraat and the Steenstraat. Around 1932, Paul Storms, the notary's son-in-law, doubled the size of the estate with an orchard enclosed by woodland, which had reverted to meadow by 1964. The estate has been recognised as recorded architectural heritage under the name Kasteeldomein Tallon since 2021. Its current use and any possible opening to the public are not documented.
