4-11A, Oxford Street

A terrace of eight houses, later converted into sixteen cottages, was built between 1845 and 1846 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a new village designed by I.K. Brunel to house workers for the railway works. The cottages are constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, featuring stone-based brick stacks on the party walls. Each cottage has one bay and two storeys, sharing a common entrance with a chamfered surround and bracketed hood. They feature four-pane casement windows in painted reveals, and a blind chamfered slit light above the doors. Stone rear yard walls and an outbuilding are also present. The village itself is one of Britain’s best-preserved railway settlements, with initial construction beginning in 1842 and later completion in the 1850s, although financial difficulties with the contractors delayed the full development.