Karoo cottage, noun phrase

A small house typical of the Karoo region built in a simple, symmetrical architecural style, traditionally featuring stone or whitewashed walls, often with a veranda. Also attributive.
2011 foodmatters.co.za (DSAE Corpus)Kanniedood – A Karoo cottage, nestling on the edge of town, sleeping up to three guests.
2013 hollatrails.co.za (DSAE Corpus)..Olive Schreiner, and husband Cron lived in Hanover from 1900 to 1907 in a typical small iron-roofed Karoo cottage with a “stoep”.
2014 stonecutters.co.za (DSAE Corpus)Set deep in the Sneeuberg Mountains in the small village of Nieu-Bethesda, the Owl House is a Karoo cottage and yard in the Eastern Cape, transformed between 1950 and 1976 by Helen Martins into a glass-encrusted wonderland and statue garden.
2018 karoolighthouse.co.za (DSAE Corpus)Our town has a unique mixture of Karoo cottage and Cape Dutch gables, decorative Victorian and evenly proportioned Georgian buildings.
A small house typical of the Karoo region built in a simple, symmetrical architecural style, traditionally featuring stone or whitewashed walls, often with a veranda. Also attributive.
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