7 And 8, Alma Cottages

7 and 8 Alma Cottages are a pair of cottages built around 1860 in the Gothic Revival style. They are constructed from coursed squared gritstone with a slate roof and feature one and a half storeys and three bays, with the central bay being gabled. The facade facing the road has cross-frame windows in rusticated surrounds on the ground floor, and paired single lights in the gable. There are arched entrances on the left and right sides, each with what are likely original four-panel doors, a small stone-roofed bay window, and a two-light window above. The eaves and roof details are elaborate, including deep carved wooden eaves brackets, fish-scale slates, crested ridge tiles, and two large four-flue corniced ridge stacks, some topped with tall crenellated chimney pots. The interior has not been inspected. These cottages are part of a group of four semi-detached cottages built on a narrow strip of land, as shown on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map. By 1872, they were occupied by Mrs. Harriet Darfield, a laundress, and Henry Gough, a gardener, and they were possibly built for servants working at the houses on Alma Road.