Kasteel Bosdam

En un regard

Le château en bref

The ‘Kasteel Bosdam’, which the Flemish inventory links to the former Cretenborgch, is in fact an Empire-style country house dating from the first quarter of the 19th century, at Oude Zandstraat 9, in the centre of Beveren. The inventory moreover uses the qualifier ‘so-called’ castle, which underlines its residential rather than defensive character. Two storeys and seven bays high, the rendered façade is covered with roof tiles topped by iron ridge crests; the end bays form perpendicular wings with jerkinhead roofs, and the three central bays carry a triangular pediment. The windows are arched on the ground floor, rectangular on the upper floor and fitted with shutters; a taller extension of the same style extends the façade to the left. The original park was reduced to a garden with a pond when the street was widened, and then to a housing development at the rear. The property has been listed as protected built heritage (‘vastgesteld’) since 2009, the current designation dating from 20 June 2023. Its former coach house, the Koetshuis Bosdam, now houses guest rooms.