Farmhouse (Z·M colec.) Basque farmhouses were much more than simple buildings designed to accommodate farming activity. It was not the family that gave the farmhouse its name, but vice versa, and the buildings themselves were granted certain municipal and parochial rights. The farmhouse and land were indivisible, and passed on in tact to a single heir. The social, economic, legal and political structure based on the concept of the farmhouse was destroyed forever by the liberal revolution.