1, 2 and 3, Bristol Street including yard walls is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Terrace of cottages. 2 related planning applications.
1, 2 and 3, Bristol Street including yard walls
- WRENN ID
- sheer-plinth-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- 1, 2 and 3, Bristol Street including yard walls, South Swindon, SN1 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 145 847
- Coordinates
- 51.56183, -1.79208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
1, 2 and 3, Bristol Street including yard walls receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 18a-18e, Emlyn Square
- 17, Emlyn Square
- Former Bakers Arms Public House, 16 Emlyn Square
- British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works Wall to Former Sawmill and Shop to Carriage Works
- 1, 2, and 3, Bathampton Street
- 15, Emlyn Square
- 14 Emlyn Square, formerly The Cricketers Public House
- The Mechanics' Institute
- 2, Emlyn Square
- 2A-2E, Emlyn Square