Alma House Including Boundary Walls To North And South

Alma House, including the boundary walls to the north and south, is an early 18th-century farmhouse. It features panels of red and grey brick with red brick dressings and has a hipped roof made of red and smut pantiles, arranged in a pattern on the elevation facing Yarmouth Road. The house is two storeys high with attics and part-cellar. The principal facade, which faces west, consists of six bays with cross casements set under rubbed brick arches. There is a doorway located one bay off-centre to the north, featuring a six-panelled door and a Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters. A platband runs at first floor level, and there is a coved eaves cornice. A square panelled chimney stack is positioned off-centre to the south.

The south elevation has four bays and features a parapeted gable to the east, along with an internal chimney stack that has a panelled top. The east elevation displays three gables, two of which have tumbling-in at the base. The two northern gables contain cross casements with segmental heads and leaded glazing. There is a six-panelled partly glazed door in an altered opening. The north elevation has three widely spaced cross casements on the first floor, while the ground floor openings have been altered. It features three casements and two doorways with segmental heads, one of which is now blocked, and a platband at floor level.

Inside, the house has a good staircase with three turned balusters per tread and some 18th-century panelling on the ground floor. The attached boundary walls are made of red brick, forming a garden area to the west of the house, with a dwarf brick wall topped by iron railings along the road frontage. The boundary wall continues to the north in flint with red brick piers and roll moulding coping, and to the south in red brick with saddle-back copings.