1 Alma Street

1 Alma Street is part of a terrace of four late-Georgian style three-storey houses. The terrace is built of scribed roughcast (with renewed render to No 1) on a painted freestone plinth, with a hipped slate roof and roughcast stacks.

Numbers 1 to 3 are two-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 two-light oriel windows serving the first-floor sitting rooms, positioned centrally on No 1 but offset to the left side on Nos 2 and 3. The upper storey contains 9-pane hornless sash windows. Basement windows occupy the left-hand bay beneath four-centred arches. No 1 has a replacement basement window; Nos 2 and 3 have small-pane basement windows.

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

No 4 is larger, a three-bay house with a wider advanced left-hand bay. It has a central panel door under a 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 to the right and a blocked left-hand window with painted glazing bars. Basement windows on the left side and a modern replacement of the coal-hole on the right side have modern glazing. A two-bay left end wall facing the sea has an added conservatory and replacement windows.

The lower storey has been converted to offices, with a separate dwelling occupying the upper floors. The original interior plan is retained, featuring a dog-leg stair with a square newel, plain balusters, and panelled tread ends.