Les Tourelles
Guest room
Situation
The house is located on a walled wooded park in the heart of Upper Mons. Ideally located 10 minutes from the center of Lille, you can enjoy a quiet worthy of a country house, while retaining the advantages of a town house.
A bit of history.
Mons-en-Baroeul was long considered the campaign for Lille. Before knowing the intense urbanization in the 1960s, you could walk in the fields of 15 farms or in the plains of Fort de Mons.
From the many properties of Mons, one that remains is that of Decoster, at 88 rue du Général de Gaulle (the large neighboring property). Its first occupant, a doctor from Lille, built it in 1870. It was purchased in 1894 by Albert VIRNOT-Tourangin, whose daughter Cecilia married Gustave Decoster, a trader of wood products in Peronne-en-Mélantois. The domain covers an area of nearly 8000 square meters.
Gustave Decoster (1889-1978), deputy mayor between the two wars and president of the North Industrial Company was a pigeon fancier. The pigeon loft was installed on the roof of the two towers, which are also part of the building that served as the castle stables.
The property was sold in 1978 at Gustave Decoster's death, and was divided into two parts, the main house, and "Les Tourelles", the former stables.
Our story.
"Les Tourelles" become our property in 2009. Since then, we transform and beautify it, combining comfort and modernity with old materials and decor reminiscent of Flanders erstwhile.