Alma House and Attached Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1978. House.

Alma House and Attached Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
solitary-landing-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
High Peak
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1978
Type
House
Address
Alma House and Attached Walls and Railings, High Lane
OS grid reference
SK 022 932
Coordinates
53.43606, -1.96833
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alma House, along with its attached walls and railings, is a house dating from the early 19th century, which incorporates some earlier elements. It is constructed from millstone grit in diminishing courses, with ashlar dressings. The roof is made of stone slate and overhangs, featuring a stone stack on the left side with watertabling.

The building is two storeys high with a garret. The front facade is asymmetrical with two windows and an off-centre doorway that has a flush ashlar surround, featuring a 20th-century panel door and overlight. To the right, there are two 20th-century 12-pane casements, while to the left, there is a single 12-pane glazing bar sash. Above, there are two similar sashes. The left side of the house has a single 4-pane sash on the first floor and two single light openings in the garret. The right side has been altered in the 20th century, with some openings blocked, including a possibly blocked doorway on the first floor.

Inside, the ground floor room on the right features wooden folding shutters. The stairs rise in a straight flight from the rear of the hall, accompanied by a deep-set single light splayed window on the landing. The roof has an off-centre partition that was once the exterior wall of an earlier structure. Access to the left side of the house is through a former window opening that has a tooled sill and lintel. The earlier roof line of a single-storey extension is still visible, showcasing a pegged hollow beam lodged in the apex.

The property also includes a low garden wall at the front, which is complemented by 20th-century spear-head and urn-shaped railings and gates, along with ashlar gate piers that have bow curved tops.

Local climate

Alma House and Attached Walls and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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