North-west row

The Sack

Le Sac · Den Sack

The façade

Façade similar to that of The Wheelbarrow, with 4 registers in the Antique style and a baroque gable. Decorative program : house emblem, tools used in the carpentry profession, 5 caryatids and the year of construction.

History and restorations

Reconstruction in 1697, integrating part of the stone façade from 1644 (Architects Pieter Paul Merckx and Antoon Pastorana). Restorations in 1854-1858, and 1907-1913; most recent restoration by the City completed in 2015.

Did you know

Only the façade of the house has been preserved, and it stands in front of a modern apartment building, built in 1938-1939.

The sections above are the city's own survey text, Ville de Bruxelles / Data Management, CC BY 4.0.

Two gilded figures with a sack between them, carved in a panel above the door of Le Sac and set between scrolled stone corbels.
Two gilded figures with a sack between them, carved in a panel above the door of Le Sac and set between scrolled stone corbels.
Le Sac in the north-west row of the Grand-Place, its balustraded first floor and gilded window frames above a café at street level, with La Brouette to the right.

North-west row

Grand-Place 4 against its neighbours, all drawn to one scale and in the order you meet them standing on the square.

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 North-west rowHouses 1 to 7 7 The Fox 6 The Horn 5 The She-Wolf 4 The Sack 2-3 The Wheelbarrow 1 The King of Spain

Where it stands

The Sack is marked. Every other number is a link to that building.

1 The King of Spain 2-3 The Wheelbarrow 5 The She-Wolf 6 The Horn 7 The Fox 8 City Hall 9 The Star 9 The Swan 10 The Brewers House (The Golden Tree) 11 The Rose 12 Mount Tabor 12a The King of Bavaria 13 The Dukes of Brabant - Fame 14 The Dukes of Brabant - the Hermitage 15 The Dukes of Brabant - Fortune 16 The Dukes of Brabant - The Windmill 17 The Dukes of Brabant - the Tin Pot 18 The Dukes of Brabant - The Hill 19 The Dukes of Brabant - the Purse 20 The Stag 21-22 Joseph and Anne 23 The Angel 24 The Weighing Scales 24-25 The Golden Boat 26-27 The Pigeon 28 The Arms of the Duchy of Brabant 29-33 The King's House 34 The Helm 35 The Peacock 36 The Little Fox 38 Saint Barbara 37 The Oak 39 The House of the Donkey 4 The Sack N

Guild house Civic House and shop Every number is a link. North is to the lower right.

23 building footprints from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, retrieved 2026-09-13. The 34 house numbers and their positions are the Ville de Bruxelles survey, CC BY 4.0. Six polygons carry more than one number, because several units of the survey are one building on the ground — the Dukes of Brabant is seven.