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Lexicon Cape Victorian _____________________________________________________ The era of the Cape Colony when under British Victorian influence, with the concomitant changing of Cape Dutch to the more fashionable style of the time, often stripping off thatch and demolishing Baroque gables, to be replaced with corrugated iron and the addition of verandahs with decorative cast iron. The white wash of the Cape remained a unifying aesthetic, particularly in the towns of the Karoo, the so-called .Karoo Style. Buildings on this website in Cape Victorian style Townhouses (Tuishuisies) - Second: 1876. Swellendam, Western Cape