The 17th-century Chateau Sarolea marks the entrance to Chératte from Liège and is a remarkable building in the Mosan Renaissance style, with its string courses, corner bands, and window surrounds of limestone and tuff. The building was commissioned in 1643 by Gilles de Sarolea, son of a Southern Netherlands noble family and Lord of Chératte, and was inhabited by his family for over 250 years. By the late 1880s, the noble de Sarolea de Chératte family had all but died out, and in 1905 the château came into the hands of the Hasard-Chératte coal mine, located a short distance away. It served as the director's residence for a time and also as a hospital for a short period. After the coal mine closed in the late 1970s, the chateau also fell into disrepair. Despite its protected status as a historic monument, it quickly fell into ruins.