Bath Road Museum Apsley House and Gate Piers
BATH ROAD MUSEUM APSLEY HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023456
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bath Road Museum Apsley House and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- BATH ROAD MUSEUM APSLEY HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023456
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bath Road Museum Apsley House and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- BATH ROAD MUSEUM APSLEY HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, BATH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BATH ROAD MUSEUM APSLEY HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, BATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Swindon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15504 83785
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318661
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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