30-51 Bathampton Street including yard walls

A terrace of 22 cottages built in 1842 for the Great Western Railway Company. Designed as part of a new village to house workers for the railway works, located to the south of the railway line, the cottages are constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. They have slate roofs and ashlar stacks with diagonal shafts set on party walls. The cottages are two stories high, each with one bay and a side passage, containing two rooms in depth. They feature chamfered and painted ashlar window and door surrounds, the latter with pyramidal stops. Doors are inset on a splay, sheltered by a bracketed canopy. Alternate pairs of cottages have gables over slightly projecting window bays. The ground floor windows are casements with upper panes, while the first floor has four-pane casements. Rear yards are enclosed by rubble stone outbuildings and brick walls with hogs-back blue copings. A continuous rear lean-to was added in the 20th century. The cottages were extensively renovated around 1974.