27-29, Bathampton Street

Nos. 27-29 Bathampton Street is a terrace of three cottages built between 1853 and 1854 for the Great Western Railway Company. Constructed from ashlar limestone with black mortar, the cottages feature slate roofs and ashlar stacks. They are two stories high, with one bay and a side passage, each cottage being two rooms deep with a rear outbuilding. The design includes a low plinth and chamfered window and door surrounds. The cottages have 20th-century 18-pane doors and four-pane sash windows on both floors. The rear walls are also made of ashlar limestone. This terrace is similar in style to Nos. 25-26 and 1-3 Bathampton Street. The cottages are part of a larger village designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate the workforce for the new Great Western Railway works, with construction starting in 1842 and most buildings completed by 1855. The village is noted for being one of Britain’s best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.