History

Built by the English during “the One hundred year old War” towards the end of the XIII° century, this old fortified house was used as a basis advanced for the one of the largest castles of Périgord destroyed during the wars of religion, the Castle of Montcuq.
On the first chart of Belen, one sees that 2 activities were established near Grande Maison; the vine and size of stone runners for the mills of the area.
Henry IV, in 1608 made gift of the property to a lawyer of Bergerac, Charles de Livardie.
Thierry Després became owner into 1990 of the buildings and a field of 10 hectares including 4 in vines in very bad condition. Since, thanks to purchases and exchanges, the property took again its former size. Today, it counts 20 hectares including 15 of vines because of a vigorous policy of qualitative replanting.