One or two whitewashed cottages and even a shop had appeared along the side of the road.

Its whitewashed cottages with thatched roofs have been so well preserved that the whole town is a national landmark.

There was a row of whitewashed thatched cottages on the right.

Some pointed to Biviano's whitewashed cottage, up a lane on a steep embankment near the church.

Hens clucked and scrambled, while the sound of singing drifted from inside the whitewashed cottage.

The cry of the curlews: a poem beginning "A lonely whitewashed cottage".

It is filled with whitewashed cottages, fruit trees and fynbos.

Near the chapel was a whitewashed cottage and, ten yards closer to where the three of them hid in a vineyard, an ancient square tower.

Much of the village is from the 18th century, and the whitewashed cottages are very picturesque.

This 500-year-old whitewashed cottage, a former bakery, is popular with locals, particularly for Sunday lunch.