26, Bristol Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Terrace house.

26, Bristol Street

WRENN ID
iron-flint-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1970
Type
Terrace house
Address
26, Bristol Street, South Swindon, SN1 5EQ
OS grid reference
SU 144 847
Coordinates
51.56134, -1.79321
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 26 Bristol Street is a terrace house built in 1853 for the Great Western Railway Company. It is constructed from ashlar limestone with black mortar and features a slate roof with ashlar stacks. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, with a central entrance. The door and window surrounds are chamfered, and there is a twenty-pane door. The windows include sixteen-pane sashes, a twelve-pane window above the door, and four-pane casements in the slightly projecting right end bay, which also has a steep shouldered gable. The property underwent extensive renovation around 1974.

This house is part of a village designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate the workforce for the new Great Western Railway works. The village was laid out in a grid pattern similar to Brunel's early drawings from 1840, with construction starting in 1842 and most buildings completed by 1855. The village is recognized as one of Britain’s best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.

Local climate

26, Bristol Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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