28 and 29, Exeter Street

These two cottages, numbered 28 and 29 Exeter Street, were built between 1853 and 1854 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village designed by I.K. Brunel to house workers for the railway works. The village was originally designed in 1840, with construction beginning in 1842 and mostly completed by 1855, although financial difficulties delayed the overall project. These cottages are constructed of ashlar limestone with black mortar, and have brick rear walls. They feature slate roofs and ashlar stacks on the party walls. The cottages are two storeys high, with one bay per cottage, two rooms deep, and a side through passage. They include eighteen-pane doors and four-pane sashes to both floors. The window and door surrounds are chamfered, with chamfered stops. A C20 rear outbuilding is present. Low plinths are visible. The rear garden is enclosed by brick walls with hogs-back copings. The cottages are similar in style to numbers 1-3 and 25-26 Bathampton Street. They underwent extensive renovation around 1974.