Apsley House is a 19th-century house in Swindon, England, standing on the north side of Bath Road in what is now known as the Old Town.[1]
It was built c.1830–1840 and faced in ashlarBath stone, and has a shallow porch over the central entrance, in the style of a Doricportico.[2] The house has two storeys at the front and three at the rear; a modernist extension was added to the right in 1963–1964, extending along Victoria Road above a row of shops.[3]
The house was for a long time the home and business headquarters of the Toomer family, who ran a local coke and coal business.[4] From 1930 until 2021 it housed the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery[5] but the museum vacated the building and the house was put up for sale when its owners, Swindon Borough Council, decided it was no longer suitable and required major repairs.[6]
Apsley House was designated as Grade II listed in 1951.[2] Julian Orbach, updating Nikolaus Pevsner's Wiltshire volume in 2021, calls it a "good ashlar villa".[3]
