Porches
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Porches or “perxes” are any rudimentary, rectangular-shaped constructions built with the dry stone technique that don’t have a vaulted roof.
Like the “cabanes”, they might be used to dry fruit, in which case they were built, facing south, or they might be used as shelters and therefore their orientation could vary.
The roof was made of wooden beams, generally trunks from almond or olive trees, which supported the layers of branches, claylike soil, flagstone or shingles that made it waterproof.
A porch used for drying fruit had two parallel walls and a single sloped roof with the water runoff towards the back, allowing maximum sunlight at the front.
A porch used as a shelter could face any direction and usually had a gabled roof, built with a center beam that rested on the rear wall and the lintel, supported by the two side walls, at the front.