Known since time immemorial.

The historian of Sant Llorenç, Antoni Ferrando, refers to a document from the year 1336 that speaks of the balma de l'Espluga, as a dependency at that time of the mas de La Mata. Probably its origins are even older given its small sample of opus spicatum.

But its historical value did not prompt any rehabilitation action, as Antoni Ferrando demanded, but, on the contrary, the original ruins were allowed to be damaged in order to make the stables for two perxerons and mules.

It is not known when its abandonment as a farmhouse occurred, but later it had been temporarily occupied by the peasants who took care of their fields, by the managers of the nearby pitch oven or by the hikers who went through those parts. But at the beginning of the 1980's there was a great renovation of the walls to house the animals during about two years that the massive felling of trees lasted before the estate was bought by the Diputació de Barcelona.