Caverie small manor takes its name from his horse, cavier was a free man when he owned a horse.

The buildings cavere In rural areas: a caverie requires a fortified house, a small castle.

They were scattered throughout the region and few remain.

These sandy areas are wood and mud, like other houses, but with a stage and small square towers, or a second floor in the center of the facade, forming a central tower. The others are stone, with four smaller square towers.

The caverie of Peyrous Orthevielle and are still well enough preserved for us to see at first glance their identity structure, the only difference is that the towers Peyrous exceed the central front, while those are in Montgaillard alignment.

We know about the why of Orthevielle lost its rear towers: the eighteenth century, at a meeting chaired by the lord, the Viscount of Orthe the cavier of Orthevielle, M. Poymiro, slapped a son of the Vicomte, he was banished and his property confiscated, hugging the two laps back.

He returned with ten years later. The caverie of Peyrous also lost his laps back, we do not know under what circumstances.

She had kept the remains of the park back over a retaining wall ornamentation, the remains have been removed and placed in stone table and benches, the park being brought into cultivation.

Former Peyroux "caver"

Not mentioned in the list of caverie 1343. At the end of the seventeenth century found in the ban and arriere ban of the Dax senechaussee among cavier "Orthe of the name of (Mr. Mora actually Moras) by Peyroux. House not on the map of Cassini.

According to some known elements, construction could go back to the fifteenth century. Complete transformation in the eighteenth or nineteenth century.

Rectangular with two short wings at right angles on front facade, a square floor, lintel openings bomb bays symmetrically arranged on the front facade, rear facade obscured by a large construction shed.

In the north wall of the first floor that served this side of the attic, jambs of an old stone fireplace forms a slender column topped by a commitment not crow moldings on both sides, small window near Chania with coussièges in the doorway.

At first also in the partition wall, is included a piece of wood with a cross bears two arches.

Source and documentation

Dubourdieu (Abbe), Marsan (Abbe). Handwritten notes ... , Passim.
White (Ch). The lords' cavier, in Bull. Soc. Borda, 1962, p. 23i.