Stellenbosch sits across the mountains from Franschhoek, reached via the R310 Helshoogte Pass — a university town built around an oak-lined heritage core (Dorp Street among the best-known) of Cape Dutch, Georgian and Victorian buildings, ringed by newer wine-estate development with wide glass walls facing the vines. The same near-identical Winelands basin sun path and Mediterranean climate apply here as in Franschhoek, with Stellenbosch's own Simonsberg and Helderberg mountains shaping its particular wind pattern rather than Franschhoek's three-mountain horseshoe.
Dorp Street-class heritage homes and student-let Victorians want the same inside-mount answer as a protected Franschhoek gable: timber or aluminium venetians on the original sash stock, no facade change needed, cellular blinds for genuine winter insulation on an older solid-walled room. The wine-estate ring around town takes wide new glass well — motorised roller blinds, concealed ceiling-recess systems and external venetians on a west-facing tasting room or entertaining wall.
One free in-home measure covers the whole brief, whether it's a single heritage sash window on Dorp Street or a full wine-estate glass wall on the town's edge.
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