5 and 6, East Street

A terrace of two houses 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 new Great Western Railway works. The village, built south of the railway line, was initially planned in 1840 and construction began in 1842. Financial difficulties delayed the completion of the village until the 1850s.

The houses are constructed of ashlar limestone with white mortar, while the rear walls are of rendered brick. The roofs are slate-covered with blue brick stacks on the party walls. The terrace is two storeys and nine bays wide, with entrances in the third and seventh bays. These have glazed doors in chamfered surrounds, sheltered by bracketed canopies. A rear entrance is situated in the fifth bay, beneath a pointed segmental chamfered arch. The gables of the third, fifth, and seventh bays are shouldered, and there is a low-pitched gable over the return to Oxford Street. The windows are sixteen-pane casement windows, with single-light transoms above the openings. The houses were extensively renovated around 1974.