Description

CROSBY

SJ3198SW BEACH LAWN
778-1/6/11 (North East side)
16/08/72 Nos.8 AND 9
(Formerly Listed as:
BEACH LAWN
Nos.1-15 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of large terraced houses with attached verandah, forming
part of row of 15 in interestingly varied but harmonious
style. Mid to later C19; altered. White-painted stucco, slate
roofs, stuccoed chimneys; cast-iron verandah. Italianate
style. Double-depth plan, No.8 single-fronted and No.9
double-fronted, with back extensions.
EXTERIOR: two-and-a-half storeys, 1:2+2 windows, a strongly
articulated 3-bay composition in which the centre and left
bays successively break forwards and the right and left have
open-pedimental gables; with a 1st-floor string course and
bracketed eaves and gables. Square-headed doorways, to the
right at No.8 and in the centre at No.9, both with pilasters
and overlights but that at No.9 wider with side windows. The
gabled left portion of each has a large pilastered canted bay
window, above which No.8 has a tripartite window with raised
architrave including central pediment on consoles and No.9 has
canted upper stage with prominent cornice; and at attic level
a segmental-headed window with keyed shouldered architrave.
Right of the doorway No.9 has a tripartite window; above, No.8
has a window with shaped and shouldered architrave and No.9
has 2 windows with dentilled cornices on consoles, that to the
right with divided half-glazed doors to the balcony; and a
pair of segmental-pedimented dormers. Tall corniced
multiple-flue chimneys to the left of each. Carried round the
whole is an attractive cast-iron verandah with geometric
open-work standards with slender foliated brackets to a
pierced frieze, the portion to the centre bay carrying a
balcony with very delicate wrought-iron railings and the rest
glazed.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
Adjoins Nos 3-7 (consec) to the right (qv) and No.10 to the
left (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: SJ3140298287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549021

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)