A Guide to the Old Buildings of the Cape

{{short description|Book by Hans Fransen}}

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The Old Buildings of the Cape is a book by Hans Fransen, subtitled in its latest edition A survey of extant architecture from before c. 1910 in the area of Cape Town–Calvinia–Colesberg–Uitenhage.

It lists extant and lost buildings and structures in the Cape Province of South Africa.{{cite book|last=Fransen|first=Hans|title=A Guide to the Old Buildings of the Cape|year=2004|publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers|location=Johannesburg & Cape Town|isbn=1-86842-191-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5cVEAQAAIAAJ&q=the+old+buildings+of+the+cape|author2=Mary Alexander Cook}}

First published in 1965 and since updated, the book is a widely recognised desk reference on the subject.

Corroborating sources include Picard,{{cite book|last=Picard|first=Hymen W. J.|title=Gentleman's Walk: The Romantic Story of Cape Town's Oldest Streets, Lanes and Squares|year=1968|publisher=Struik|location=Cape Town}} Pearse,{{cite book|last=Pearse|first=Geoffrey Eastcott|title=Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa|year=1933|publisher=A. A. Balkema|location=Cape Town|url=https://archive.org/details/EighteenthCenturyArchitectureInSouthAfrica}} Lewcock{{cite book|last=Lewcock|first=Ronald|title=Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in South Africa|year=1963|publisher=A. A. Balkema|location=Cape Town|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GVQAAAAMAAJ&q=Early+Nineteenth+Century+Architecture+in+South+Africa}} and Obholzer.{{cite book|title=The Cape House and its Interior|publisher=Stellenbosch Museum|location=Stellenbosch|isbn=0-620-04259-1|author=A. M. Obholzer|author2=M. Baraitser & W.D. Malherbe|year=1985 |editor=W.D. Malherbe, N. Beyers & H. Fransen}}