Xhos Castle, 18th-century castle in Anthisnes, Belgium

Xhos Castle is a stone and brick structure with five levels that rises prominently across the Anthisnes landscape, crowned with a distinctive slate roof. Several secondary buildings including a gatehouse, stables, and a former bakery are scattered throughout the grounds around the main structure.

Pierre de Méan acquired the estate in 1660 and built a new castle whose main house resembled a keep. His grandson rebuilt the destroyed outer bailey, laid out gardens and long lime avenues, and in 1738 Xhos became a separate seigneurie under Prince-Bishop Georg Ludwig von Berghes. Mid-18th-century alterations gave the logis its present form, and the Oultremont family inherited it in 1876.

The gate pillars carry the letters O and X, for Oultremont and Xhos. The high ground floor holds several salons and dining rooms because the main building long housed several families at once, each with its own quarters. A dining room of about 1820 keeps its Empire and Neoclassical fittings, and the library has a fireplace in the Gothic tradition.

The castle is a private residence of the Oultremont family and its interiors cannot be visited; the grounds and buildings are seen from outside only. A straight avenue of over 200 metres leads from the north to the gate, whose square pillars carry stone vases and the letters O and X. The gate is closed by a semicircular iron fence.

The wrought-iron gate closing the cour d'honneur carries the letters O and X, for Oultremont and Xhos, and its square pillars are topped with stone vases. A straight tree-lined avenue of more than 200 metres leads to it from the north. The weather vanes on the roof ridge bear the dates 1765 and 1909.