Bath Road Museum Apsley House and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. Museum, house.

Bath Road Museum Apsley House and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1951
Type
Museum, house
Address
Bath Road Museum Apsley House and Gate Piers, South Swindon
OS grid reference
SU 155 837
Coordinates
51.55274, -1.77777
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Apsley House, now a museum, was built around 1830-1840 and is constructed from ashlar Bath stone with a slate roof. The building features a central stack and has a two-storey front block that transitions to three storeys at the rear. It has two bays and a central hallway that leads to a rear stair, with two rooms deep. There is a connection to a late 20th-century extension on the right side.

The ground floor has a rusticated appearance, lacking perpends between the end pilasters. The central entrance is marked by a Greek Doric portico with a crested entablature set on a wide stepped podium. Above the entrance is a semicircular fanlight with colored glass. The front facade includes round-headed, full-height windows that are margin-glazed with etched flashed glass. The first-floor windows have simple lugged architraves and 12-pane sashes with margin glazing. Below the central bay, there is a recessed panel with reeding, and the centre bay is slightly projected forward. The facade is topped with a cornice and parapet featuring acroteriae, and there is a contemporary extension to the left.

Inside, the hallway boasts a groined vault. The reception room on the right has a plaster cornice, and there are stacks located on the rear walls. The staircase features three straight balusters per tread. The forecourt is marked by rusticated gate piers topped with anthemion block cappings.

Local climate

Bath Road Museum Apsley House and Gate Piers 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.

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