Alma Hotel, 4-6 Alma Place, Laurencekirk is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 September 1996. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Alma Hotel, 4-6 Alma Place, Laurencekirk
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-belfry-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 September 1996
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Alma Hotel, 4-6 Alma Place, Laurencekirk, AB30 1AL
- OS grid reference
- NO 718 715
- Coordinates
- 56.8342, -2.46355
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Alma Hotel, located at 4-6 Alma Place in Laurencekirk, is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey and attic building featuring six bays and classical detailing. The exterior is finished with painted stugged coursers and ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof.
The roof is adorned with three ashlar roof dividers that include skew blocks, and there are three corniced ashlar ridge stacks, although only one remains intact. A band course runs along the first floor and eaves. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, with canted 12-pane dormers that have four-pane side lights and piended roofs.
On the front elevation, there is a central four-panelled door with an astragalled fanlight, flanked by narrow four-pane side lights. To the left and right of the entrance are additional windows. A depressed arch pend entrance is located at the far left, with a window and another four-panelled door at the far right. The first floor features seven windows and four dormers. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Alma Hotel, 4-6 Alma Place, Laurencekirk receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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