Community plans facelift for village square

Strathpeffer residents are planning a facelift for their village’s historic square.

The local community council has been awarded money from the Scottish Government’s town centre fund to make a start on their vision to restore the square to something approaching its Victorian heyday, when the village heaved with visitors taking the famous spa waters.

A new gazebo over the outdoor dance floor will provide a focal point, with a pitched, slated roof, decorative finials and features and steel columns designed to look like wooden posts.

The run of shops will have their windows, top and bottom, replaced in a style sympathetic to the original mid-19th Century look. Shop signage will also be replaced to reflect Victorian times.

Fresh roughcast on the buildings is also part of the plans, currently under consideration by Highland Council.

A Victorian look is planned for Strathpeffer’s square