BATH ROAD MUSEUM APSLEY HOUSE AND GATE PIERS

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:: BATH ROAD MUSEUM APSLEY HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, BATH ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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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Legacy System number:: 318661
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.