3A, 3B, 4A and 4B, East Street

A terrace of two houses, later converted into four flats, was constructed between 1853 and 1854. The buildings were commissioned by the Great Western Railway Company as part of a new village designed by I.K. Brunel to house workers for the Great Western Railway works. This village, located south of the railway line, was conceived in the 1840s and comprised twelve terraces arranged in six blocks. Construction started in 1842, facing delays due to financial issues with the contractors, and continued until the 1850s. The cottages west of Emlyn Square were built first, followed by those on the east side, with later construction occurring between 1853 and 1855.

The houses are built of ashlar limestone with white mortar, while the rear walls are of rendered brick. They have slate roofs and blue brick stacks on the party walls. The design is two storeys and nine bays wide. The main entrances are located in the third and seventh bays, featuring glazed doors set in chamfered surrounds, protected by bracketed canopies. A rear entrance is situated in the fifth bay, accessed through a pointed segmental chamfered arch. Shouldered gables are present on the third, fifth, and seventh bays, as well as on the returns facing Reading and Oxford Streets. The windows are sixteen-pane casement windows, with smaller single-light windows above the openings. Extensive renovations were carried out around 1974. The village is one of Britain's best-preserved and most ambitious railway settlements, having been acquired and restored by the local authority in 1966.