23, 25, 27 and 29, Alma Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Tenements.

23, 25, 27 and 29, Alma Street

WRENN ID
heavy-fireplace-willow
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
Tenements
Address
23, 25, 27 and 29, Alma Street, Wivenhoe
OS grid reference
TM 039 215
Coordinates
51.85545, 0.95997
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 23, 25, 27, and 29 Alma Street are tenements built around 1850. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and consist of two storeys with a slate roof and two brick chimney stacks at the eaves. The first storey features four sash windows set under segmental arches made of stucco, which include keystones and margin bars. On the ground storey, there are four matching sash windows, along with two pairs of doors in double stucco cases that are hooded, each with six-panel leaves and plain lights above.

Local climate

23, 25, 27 and 29, 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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