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
- watchful-finial-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- Museum, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 1583 NE; 8/7
SWINDON, BATH ROAD (north side), Bath Road Museum, Apsley House and gate piers
02.10.51
GV
II
House, now Museum. c1830-40. Ashlar Bath stone, slate roof. Central stack. 2-storey front block, split to three storeys at rear. Two bays, with central hallway to rear stair. Two rooms deep. Connection to late C20 extension on right. Ground floor rusticated without perpends between end pilasters. Central entrance Greek Doric portico with crested entablature on wide stepped podium. Semicircular fanlight with coloured glass. Round-headed full-height windows, margin-glazed with etched flashed glass. Simple lugged architraves to first floor windows, 12-pane sashes with margin glazing. Recessed panel below reeded. Centre bay broken forward. Cornice and parapet with acroteriae. Facade has contemporary extension left. INTERIOR: Groined vault in hallway. Reception room right has plaster cornice. Stacks to rear walls. Stair with three straight balusters per tread. Rusticated gatepiers to forecourt with anthemion block cappings.
Listing NGR: SU1550483785
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