(1) A unique feature are the pillars on the front stoep : they are upside down cannon barrels, painted white.

(2) In South Africa a stoep is a raised veranda on which you sit and watch the world go by.

(3) Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda.

(4) For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.

(5) The farmhouse started as a simple rectangular building with front stoep .