31, 31A, 32 and 32A, Oxford Street

Two houses, now flats, stand in a terrace built in 1847 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village designed to house workers for the new railway works. The village was initially planned by I.K. Brunel in 1840, with construction beginning in 1842 and largely completed by 1855. The houses are built of ashlar limestone with a coursed rubble rear wall, set against black mortar, and feature slate roofs, with stone-based brick stacks on the gable walls. Each house is two storeys high and three bays wide, with a central entrance and hallway flanked by rooms. A 20th-century lean-to has been added to the rear. The front doors are 20th-century fifteen-pane doors, set in painted, chamfered surrounds with run-out stops. Windows are tripartite two-pane sashes within chamfered surrounds. A label mould runs over all ground floor openings, and there is a blind light above each door. The houses were extensively renovated around 1974. No yard walls are present.