Strathpeffer Residential

Attribution: unknown (The ruin of Free Church in Jamestown)

Residential Properties

Seven homes have been selected by architect Douglas Murray to provide examples of the wide variety of homes in Strathpeffer.  We are giving a small ‘taster’ of the homes in this page but you can see the full number of properties in the photo album at the bottom of this page.

However, we will start with one house not selected by Mr Murray, which is Crancil Brae, the photograph of which was taken early in the 20th century by the owner, T Wellwood Maxwell, the Strathpeffer chemist.

Crancil Brae

Attribution: T Wellwood Maxwell

Raven Cottage

An early cottage, originally thatched, tucked into the slope, now surrounded by Victorian villas and dominated by Cromartie Buildings, but it would have been in green fields at one time.

Raven Cottage

Attribution: unknown

No. 8 Kinellan Drive

No. 8 Kinellan Drive is a typical council house with an attractive garden.

No. 8 Kinellan Drive is a typical council house with an attractive garden.

Attribution: unknown

Manderley

Manderley – For a contemporary house I think Angus Macdonald’s “Manderley” is a worthy example of the period, also in a piended style with strong overhanging eaves, reflecting the owner’s times working in the Far East. It is set on the hillside above the village with spectacular views down the strath to the Cromarty Firth.
[Sadly, Angus Macdonald died in 2010.]

Sunlight on Manderley

Attribution: unknown

View all the properties selected by architect Douglas Murray

Click on photo album to view thumbnails and then click thumbnail to see the full size images 
Strathpeffer » Strathpeffer Places » Strathpeffer Residential
Dunnichen
Dunnichen
Dunnichen
Dunnichen
Dunnichen today. Dunnichen (formerly Rondebosch) was built in 1902 for a South African on a grand scale, rich in overall form and exquisite in detail, and never sub-divided, in spite of its size, unlike other villas of the period.
No. 8 Kinellan Drive is a typical council house with an attractive garden.
No. 8 Kinellan Drive is a typical council house with an attractive garden.
Manderley
Manderley
The drive to Manderley showing on the skyline one of the carved stags that used to adorn the entry gates to Brahan Castle
Manderley
Manderley
The drive to Manderley showing on the skyline one of the carved stags that used to adorn the entry gates to Brahan Castle
Manderley - pond and front of house
Manderley - pond and front of house
The drive to Manderley showing on the skyline one of the carved stags that used to adorn the entry gates to Brahan Castle
Sunlight on Manderley
Sunlight on Manderley
The wonderful view down the Strath to Dingwall from the garden of Manderley
The wonderful view down the Strath to Dingwall from the garden of Manderley
The wonderful view down the Strath to Dingwall from the garden of Manderley. Manderley - For a contemporary house I think Angus Macdonald's "Manderley" is a worthy example of the period, also in a piended style with strong overhanging eaves, reflecting the owner's times working in the Far East. It is set on the hillside above the village with spectacular views down the strath to the Cromarty Firth. [Sadly, Angus Macdonald died in 2010.]
Raven Cottage (c. 1900)
Raven Cottage (c. 1900)
Raven Cottage (c. 1900) A very plain but elegant and well proportioned large white harled house of about 1785, the farm-house of one of the three original farms at the head of the valley.
Rondebosch in the 1930s
Rondebosch in the 1930s
Rondebosch (now Dunnichen) in the 1930s, with Provost Andrew Murray (Dingwall) and his wife Margaret.
Rondebosch (now Dunnichen) in the 1930s, with Provost Andrew Murray (Dingwall) and his wife Margaret.
Crancil Brae
Crancil Brae
One house not selected by Mr Murray is Crancil Brae, the photograph of which was taken early in the 20th century by the owner, T Wellwood Maxwell, the Strathpeffer chemist.
Kinettas (1999)
Kinettas (1999)
Kinettas (1999 ) A very plain but elegant and well proportioned large white harled house of about 1785, the farm-house of one of the three original farms at the head of the valley.
Raven Cottage
Raven Cottage
Raven Cottage An early cottage, originally thatched, tucked into the slope, now surrounded by Victorian villas and dominated by Cromartie Buildings, but it would have been in green fields at one time.
Timaru
Timaru
Timaru, completed in 1877 to the design of Inverness architect Alexander Ross, is a glorious essay - or at least the frontage is - in carpenter's Gothic style with finely carved posts and balusters and eaves boards. It was built for a retired New Zealand sheep-farmer and has an air of far-off lands about it.
Santrothen
Santrothen
Santrothen (beside the former filling station) is an interesting example of 1950's bungalow style with a part-piended (hipped) and slated roof and bold facing brick detail over entrance and at windows on the front elevation.
Castle Leod 2021
Castle Leod 2021
Close Album

Please submit your comment

Do you have any more information about any of the content on this page.

Your comments are always welcome:

Close Popup