21-36, Reading Street

A terrace of sixteen cottages was built between 1846 and 1847 for the Great Western Railway Company as part of a village designed to house workers for the new railway works. The village, designed by I.K. Brunel, was constructed in stages, with these cottages being built between 1846 and 1847. The construction used coursed squared door and window surrounds, with coursed rubble forming the rear walls. The roofs are slate, featuring brick stacks on the party walls. Each cottage is two stories with one bay, arranged two rooms deep with a through side passage. A 20th-century brick lean-to is present at the rear. The cottages have a low, chamfered plinth. They feature 20th-century fifteen-pane glazed doors within chamfered surrounds and splayed stops, alongside four-pane sashes in similarly chamfered surrounds. The cottages are similar in style to those at 3-18 Reading Street and underwent extensive renovation around 1974.