Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner in London was designed by Robert Adam for Lord Apsley, Henry Bathurst, and Benjamin Dean Wyatt carried out 19th-century renovations. The infobox also lists Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as a client. The text says Richard Wellesley bought the house in 1807 and sold it to Arthur in 1817. Adam's building dates to 1771 to 1778, and Wyatt's renovations began in 1819, with a second phase after 1828.
The article calls the style Neoclassical. The house was originally red brick, later clad in Bath stone, with a pedimented portico and some Coade stone ornament. It gives no dimensions.
Gerald, 7th Duke of Wellington, gave the house and its key contents to the nation in 1947. It opened as a museum in 1952, and responsibility passed to English Heritage in 2004. It shows the Wellington Collection. The article gives no hours.
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