3 Alma Street

A terrace of 4 late-Georgian style 3-storey houses, constructed of scribed roughcast (with renewed render to No 1) on a painted freestone plinth, with hipped slate roof and roughcast stacks.

Nos 1–3 are 2-bay houses. Each has a door under a round-headed overlight on the right side; No 1 retains its original door with round-headed panels, No 2 has a replacement marine-style door, and No 3 has an early 20th-century half-glazed panel door. On the left side are 12-pane hornless sash windows. Above these are 2-light oriel windows serving first-floor sitting rooms, positioned centrally on No 1 but offset to the left on Nos 2 and 3. The upper storey has 9-pane hornless sashes. Basement windows occupy the left-hand bay beneath 4-centred arches; No 1 has a replacement window while Nos 2 and 3 retain small-pane windows.

The 2-bay right end wall facing Castle Street contains blind windows except for a 12-pane hornless sash on the right in the middle storey and a shorter 12-pane hornless sash above it. Set back further to the right is a 2-storey extension in similar style, with a half-glazed door and small-pane sash windows.

No 4 is larger, a 3-bay house with a wider advanced left-hand bay. It features a central panel door and round-headed overlight. The outer bays have 12-pane hornless sash windows in the lower and middle storeys. The upper storey contains a 9-pane sash window on the right and a blocked left-hand window with painted glazing bars. Basement windows to the left and a modern replacement for the coal-hole to the right have modern glazing. The 2-bay left end wall facing the sea incorporates an added conservatory and replacement windows.

The rear of No 3 has windows replaced in original openings.

Internally, the entrance hall features a full-height open-well stair with fret-cut balusters and square newels. Main rooms have panelled doors. The parlour in the lower storey contains a polished slate fireplace surround in simple classical style.