This large farmhouse is one of the structures in a park surrounding a chateau. It includes, among other things, the caretaker's house. Green World is situated within the castle grounds, northeast of the castle. The complex consists of anchored brick buildings under gable roofs (decorative red and black Flemish tiles), arranged around a courtyard. The farmhouse largely dates from the last quarter of the 19th century. The south wing consists of a beautiful greenhouse and aviary. That part is overgrown with weeds, which gave rise to the pseudonym 'Green World'. The chapel added to the north wing is much more recent.
The last photo is an interior view of the separate chapel in the woods south of the farm. This was originally the ice cellar. The small building also dates from the fourth quarter of the 19th century. It was erected in the early 1990s as a forest chapel. The octagonal pavilion of brick and knotty wood stands on a plinth of local iron sandstone. The plastered interior contains recycled Neo-Gothic high reliefs from a West Flemish abbey. The stained-glass windows were salvaged from an unspecified demolished Walloon church.
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