Alma Cottage

Attached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, with extension to rear (north) elevation and full-height canted bay windows to front (south) elevation. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves, flat roofed dormer window and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Camber-headed window openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed bipartite window opening to ground floor having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Painted sills throughout. Open timber trellis porch with pitched glazed roof and timber bargeboards, brackets and finial. Door opening not visible. Square-headed door opening to north with rendered pilasters supporting pediment and flanking timber panelled door. Set within its own grounds.

One of a group of diverse houses constructed along the river, orientated to maximize light and views over the River Lee. This house may originally have been a pair of three-bay houses that was later amalgamated to single use. It retains noteworthy historic fabric including its camber-headed openings, sash windows and later box bay windows. The street entrance, set in a blank wall, is a feature that is repeated along Sunday’s Well Road, allowing for privacy to the streetfront and creating a sense of exclusion from the outside world for the residents within.