3 and 4, Church Place

Nos. 3 and 4, Church Place are a terrace of cottages built between 1853 and 1854 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village designed to house workers for the Great Western Railway works. The cottages were constructed of ashlar limestone with Flemish bond brick rear walls, and have slate roofs with ashlar stacks on the party walls. They are two storeys high and one room deep, with two bays per cottage. Each cottage has a central segmental pointed archway, chamfered, over the entry to the rear access and over the central entrance to the cottage itself, with a C20 eighteen-pane door beneath a bracketed canopy. The windows have chamfered surrounds and C20 casements with rounded top corners. There is a single-light window above the door, now blocked. Gablets are situated over the entry and end bays. The appearance is similar to that of Nos. 1 and 2 Church Place. These cottages represent one of Britain’s best-preserved and most ambitious railway settlements.