Description

CROSBY

SJ3198SW BEACH LAWN
778-1/6/18 (North East side)
No.17

GV II

House. Probably 1867 [Pevsner]; altered. Red brick in Flemish
bond with some sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof
with broad fishscale bands and red cockscomb ridge tiles.
Eccentric High Victorian Gothic style. Irregular double-depth
plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 2 unequal bays, asymmetrical, the
wider 1st bay gabled and the narrow 2nd bay with a small gable
over it, both gables with stepped coping. The left has a wide
2-storey canted bay window which has 4 stone-mullioned
segmental-pointed lights at ground floor and over this a
series of 4 amorphous stepped brick arches; a 4-light window
at 1st floor with columns at the angles; and a hipped
fishscale slate roof. The right-hand bay has a wide
segmental-pointed 3-light transomed window at ground floor,
with a glazed door in the centre and leaded stained glass in
the top lights; and at 1st floor a small canted oriel on
brackets. Left return (to Harbord Road) is entrance front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: owned or occupied by one Dr Drysdale who
installed heating and ventilation equipment which is said to
be still in situ [Pevsner].
Adjoins No.16 to the right (qv), a pair in free Gothic style
forming an interesting foil to the large Italianate group to
the right (Nos 1-15 consec, qv).
All the listed buildings in Beach Lawn, together with those in
Adelaide Terrace, Bath Street, Marine Crescent and Marine
Terrace, form a group in the Waterloo Conservation Area of
Crosby.

Listing NGR: SJ3132298359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549010

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)