1, 2 and 3, Bristol Street including yard walls

This terrace of three cottages was built between 1845 and 1846 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village designed by I.K. Brunel to house workers for the Great Western Railway works. The cottages are constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins, and have slate roofs. They are two storeys high. Number 1 is a double unit, while numbers 2 and 3 are single units. The cottages feature twenty-pane doors inset on a splay and four-pane sashes. Stone rear yard walls and outbuildings are also present. Extensive renovations were carried out around 1974. The appearance is similar to that of numbers 53 and 54 Bathampton Street. These cottages are part of one of Britain’s best-preserved and most ambitious railway settlements, which experienced construction delays due to the financial difficulties of the contractors JD & C Rigby. The village's early layout drawings date to 1840, and the cottages were acquired by the local authority from British Rail in 1966 before being restored.