The paper is totally based on field investigation which was carried out in different blocks of North districts of Sikkim.
As settlement not only shows the multi-relational dimension but it also exhibits the variation, boundaries as a whole, it also
generates a typical landscape. The main focus of this paper is on Rural Settlement where the detail study of rational house type
of different ethnic groups like Bhutia Lepcha and Nepalese are studied. The recorded history witnesses that the different ethnic
groups came with different idea of constructing houses which are of typical type, the Lepcha who are consider to be original
habitat of Sikkim had the similar way of constructing houses that of Bhutia. This different ethnic groups brought their own
culture and own way of living. This includes house type or style, food habits, dressing, belief etc, the lepcha and bhutia have
some kind of similarities in the construction of houses unlike Nepalese who developed a different style of constructing houses all
together.
