Getting three draughtspersons to look at your stand in Northern Cape takes calls and weeks. Send one request instead, with the rooms, the stand and what you have now, and we pass it to draughtspersons and architects who work in towns and cities across Northern Cape.
Rondavel House Plans in Northern Cape
Draughtspersons around Northern Cape draw rondavels and hexagonal huts for homesteads, guest lodges and holiday farms across Northern Cape. Tell them whether the stand is in a town, on a farm or under a traditional authority, and how far the hut will be from the boundary, because thatch and fire rules depend on it.
The main rondavel house plans page explains the drawings, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Northern Cape notes on house designs
Heat is the main design driver: thick walls, light colours, small west windows, ceiling insulation and shaded stoeps. In Upington and Kathu, families typically build three bedroom face-brick or plastered houses with a carport and large patio. Mining workers in Kathu and Sishen often want compact two bedroom or granny flat plans, and Kalahari farms sometimes combine a farmhouse with workers' cottages.
Homes and buildings in Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the biggest and emptiest province, so plans here are shaped by distance, heat and wind. Kimberley's Belgravia and Monument Heights carry Victorian and Edwardian buildings from the diamond era, while Upington's Orange River irrigation belt has raisin and date farms with sheds and workers' housing. Kathu and Postmasburg grow on iron ore, and Springbok serves the Namaqualand wildflower trade. Houses are often single storey, built of brick or sand-cement block with deep roof overhangs to fight the sun. Summer temperatures, dust storms and occasional flash floods along dry riverbeds are routine, and draughtspersons often travel hundreds of kilometres to measure up.
The requests we see from Northern Cape usually come from:
- Families building a new house: a thatched round room as a lounge, studio or main bedroom added to the house
- Farms, smallholdings and rural homesteads: a family homestead of several huts for sleeping, cooking and storing, built in phases
- Owners adding or changing rooms: joining a rondavel to an existing house with a covered passage and a matching roof
- Shops, offices and restaurants: guest rondavels with en-suites and decks for a lodge, guest farm or tea garden
- Rental and granny flat investors: rental rondavels for tourists, drawn to the zoning and the fire rules for thatch
- Estate agents, sellers and landlords: approved drawings for a rondavel on a farm or smallholding being sold, so the bank accepts it
- Churches, schools and crèches: a round meeting room or crèche hut with good ventilation and a fire-safe roof
Local tips for Northern Cape
Most asked for in Northern Cape: heat-smart single-storey houses, mining-town rooms, farm sheds and heritage extensions. Who draws them: draughtspersons in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu, architects mostly in Kimberley. A useful tip: ask for travel costs in the quote and whether heritage comment applies to you.
Around Northern Cape the largest group asking is families building a new house, which usually means a thatched round room as a lounge, studio or main bedroom added to the house. Expect drawn to SANS 10400, thatch rules checked as the baseline, and keep in mind: kalahari sand, extreme heat, dust and flash floods along dry riverbeds.
What to include in your request
- Round, six corner or eight corner
- Thatch, sheeting or tile roof
- How many huts and how they link up
- Distance to boundaries and other buildings
- Whether it is a home, a rental or a lodge unit
A rough idea of the rooms is enough: the brief on this page turns it into a block plan and a floor area.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
Across Northern Cape our network reaches Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether the draughtsperson has submitted to your municipality before.