Home UpKuching: Colonial Residential Neighborhoods

The great majority of Kuching's residents live in post-colonial housing, but older bits survive on the waterfront upstream from the town's center.

Most of the houses of the Brooke era are elevated, metal-clad, and hip-roofed. Here's one in good shape.

A simpler example.

Simple but with classically inspired columns.

New roof.

Propped to postpone the inevitable.

The basic form is still popular.

In this case a wing has been added.