7, Alma Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
7, Alma Street
- WRENN ID
- white-corner-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7, Alma Street, Wivenhoe
- OS grid reference
- TM 039 215
- Coordinates
- 51.85511, 0.95992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 Alma Street is a house dating from around 1800. It is three storeys high and has two bays. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a ridged, gabled roof that is clad in slate, with two end chimneys made of red brick. On the second storey, there are two small-paned sash windows located beneath the eaves. The first storey has two later sash windows set under stucco segmental arches, while the ground storey has two paned sashes along with two plain doors and a central round-arched rear access.
Local climate
7, Alma Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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