Quercy Houses
Quercy traditionally is composed of higher Quercy, centred on Cahors, and of lower Quercy, centred on Montauban. Higher quercy corresponds today to the Lot department.
Quercy traditional houses were generally built from the early 18th century to World War I. Typical properties in this Midi Pyrenees region of France are built on a rectangular plan, with a long façade wall. The house generally has a chimney too.
As in Périgord, the landless peasant would inhabit a single rectangular room, while the day-labourer with a small holding, the sharecropper and the small landowner all live in a
longère. The hall contains a wide chimney that could be used for cooking on hot cinders.
Quercy houses are gorgeous stone properties.   |
Once more, pigeonniers/ dovecotes are frequently seen in the Quercy countryside, these animals providing a cheap but sought-after fertilizer, colombine.
The upper-floor house is common in Quercy, except to the North of the river Dordogne. It is also common around Cahors.
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