Wash Houses and Connecting Boundary Wall to Rear of Alma Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Wash houses. 1 related planning application.

Wash Houses and Connecting Boundary Wall to Rear of Alma Terrace

WRENN ID
slow-brass-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1993
Type
Wash houses
Address
Wash Houses and Connecting Boundary Wall to Rear of Alma Terrace, Grove Road, Portland, DT5 1DQ
OS grid reference
SY 700 725
Coordinates
50.55161, -2.4247
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building consists of five former wash houses, now used as stores, connected by a continuous boundary wall at the rear of Alma Terrace. They were likely built around 1854, the same time as the terrace itself. The wash houses are constructed from good dressed stone and feature slate roofs. Each unit contains a small single room with a pent roof that rises to a raised rear parapet, and there is a plain stone eaves band. Each unit has a large 12-pane sash window set into a deep stone cill, and on the far right, there is a 19th-century panelled door. At the back left, there is a large stone stack that is two stages high with a heavy capping. The interior retains a copper boiler set in a brick sub-structure and has a stone floor. The boundary wall between the units is approximately 0.5 meters lower than the rear parapets. These outbuildings are notably grand for their type and serve as a reminder of the 19th-century social scene. They have been well restored alongside the houses they belong to.

Local climate

Wash Houses and Connecting Boundary Wall to Rear of Alma Terrace receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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