Alma House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1974. House.
Alma House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-tower-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alma House, Alma Place, Marlborough
- OS grid reference
- SU 188 691
- Coordinates
- 51.42062, -1.73046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma House, located on the west side of Alma Place, is a mid-18th century building constructed of colourwashed brick with a pitched tile roof. It features a very tall chequer brick stack and stands two storeys high with attics. The building has a moulded brick eaves cornice and five sash windows with glazing bars set in reveals on the first floor. The ground floor of Alma House has a pent-roofed section that projects forward, flanked by two canted bays with sash windows and glazing bars, alongside glazed double doors topped with a fanlight and marginal glazing bars. The ground floor of No 14 includes two casement windows (one tripartite) with glazing bars and a 19th-century door with a fanlight. All the listed buildings in Alma Place are recognized as a group.
Local climate
Alma House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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