4-24 Bathampton Street including yard walls

A terrace of 21 cottages was built in stages between 1842 and 1855 as part of a village designed by I.K. Brunel to house workers for the Great Western Railway. The cottages are constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and have slate roofs. Numbers 4 to 8 are double units, while numbers 9 to 24 are single units, with the cottages being two rooms deep. The design incorporates ashlar stacks on the party walls, featuring diagonal shafts, and a lean-to staircase to the rear. The cottages have low plinths and chamfered door and window surrounds, with the doors having splayed stops and flush hood moulding. Later 20th-century doors are inset on splay, and the lower casement windows have panes within the upper section, while first-floor windows are four-pane casements. Numbers 4 and 5 have a heavy block dentil course under the eaves. Double units feature windows in a slightly projecting section of the facade. The terrace is enclosed by brick yard walls topped with blue hogs-back copings. The cottages were extensively renovated around 1974 and are similar in style to those at 30-50 Exeter Street.