4-25, Bristol Street including yard walls

A terrace of 22 cottages built in 1842 for the Great Western Railway Company, designed by I.K. Brunel as part of a new village to house railway workers. The cottages are constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and have slate roofs. They feature ashlar stacks with diagonal shafts set on party walls. Each cottage is two storeys high, with one bay and a side passage leading to two rooms at the rear. The window and door surrounds are chamfered and painted, with the latter featuring pyramidal stops. Each door is inset on a splay under a bracketed canopy. Alternate pairs of cottages have gables over slightly projecting window bays. The ground-floor windows are casements with upper panes, while the first-floor windows are four-pane casements. The rear yards are enclosed by rubble stone outbuildings and brick walls with hog-back blue copings. A continuous rear lean-to was added in the 20th century, and the cottages were extensively renovated around 1974. The design is similar to that of Nos. 30-51 Bathampton Street.