Alma Cottage Alma House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. Cottage, house.
Alma Cottage Alma House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-entrance-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1983
- Type
- Cottage, house
- Address
- Alma Cottage Alma House, Beacon Road, Penrith
- OS grid reference
- NY 515 311
- Coordinates
- 54.67291, -2.75213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma Cottage and Alma House, dated 1854, are located at the corner of Graham Street and Beacon Road. Originally a public house and stables, Alma House features two storeys and a basement, with a painted scored stucco exterior, quoins, slate roof, and eaves supported by blocks. The front has a central panelled door with a small fanlight above, framed by pilasters and a cornice, accessed by five steps with a simple iron railing. There are two 12-paned sash windows on the ground floor and three above, all set within plain architraves. The gable end facing Beacon Road includes a panelled door, two 12-paned sash windows below, and three above, along with a datestone from 1854 in the gable. Alma Cottage, which was converted from stables around 1890, is also two storeys high and features a doorway with three 6-paned sash windows, each with a continuous dripstone above, and three additional sash windows above, all in plain stone architraves.
Local climate
Alma Cottage Alma House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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