Cape Dutch

Domestic architectural style of the Cape provinces of South Africa, developed mainly in the period from 1652 until the end of the rule of the Dutch East India Company in 1796 and for a generation further, some examples being built as late as 1874. Characteristic elements include front and end gables, steep thatched roofs with a span of about six meters, and thick rubble, clay, or soft-brick walls, plastered and limewashed.