Alma Inn (Part)

The Alma Inn, part of a public house that was formerly a house, dates from the late 18th century. It is timber-framed with the front and northwest side constructed of red, tuck-pointed, Flemish-bond brickwork. The building features a gabled roof covered with clay plain tiles and has two storeys plus attics, with a central ridgeline stack and two hipped roof dormers set behind a rebuilt parapet. A projecting brick band runs between the storeys, topped by a brick cornice.

On the front, the first floor includes a flush double-hung sash window with small panes and moulded surrounds, flanked by a rendered blind window recess. All three openings have recessed aprons and original rubbed brick, slightly arched heads with rendered keystones. The ground floor has one similar window, a large 19th-century window with three etched glass panes, and an entrance leading to the rear yard, which is accessed through a wrought-iron gate. The building has a black tarred plinth with moulded brick coping.

At the southeast end, there is an early 19th-century lean-to extension, matching the red brick of the street and featuring a black tarred weatherboarded flank. This extension includes a casement window and a clay pantile roof, as well as an early 19th-century four-panel door with a rectangular fanlight and a rubbed brick flat arch.

Inside, there is an 18th-century well staircase with a Chinese Chippendale balustrade. On the first floor, there is a simple 19th-century fire surround and a mid-19th-century Adamesque fire surround with an iron semicircular grate.