13, Beach Lawn

No. 13, Beach Lawn is a detached villa with an attached verandah, now part of a row of 15 buildings in a varied but harmonious style. It dates from the mid to later 19th century and was built for a shipping magnate, Ismay, the proprietor of the White Star Line. The villa has been altered since its original construction. The exterior is white-painted stucco with a slate roof and stuccoed chimneys, featuring a cast-iron verandah. The building is constructed in an Italianate style and has an L-plan, with a projecting gabled wing to the left and a screen wall to the right.

It is two-and-a-half storeys high with a 1:2 window arrangement, displaying a strongly articulated composition. The main range has a large doorway with side windows and a half-glazed door, alongside a canted bay window to the right. The first floor features a one-light window and a large tripartite window, both with moulded architraves and cornices on consoles. Above these is a small two-light window under the eaves and a half-dormer with a semi-circular canopy. The gabled wing to the left has a two-storey canted bay, the ground-floor window being tripartite with rounded corners and a pilastered architrave with corner finials. The first-floor window has panelled aprons and a hipped lead-clad roof extended as a swept canopy, while the second floor has a Venetian window with a pilastered and keyed architrave. All windows now have altered glazing. The villa has tall, corniced, multiple-flue chimneys. An attached cast-iron verandah connects to a conservatory on the right-hand end.

The interior has not been inspected. No. 13, along with the other listed buildings in Beach Lawn, together with those in Adelaide Terrace, Bath Street, Marine Crescent and Marine Terrace, forms a group within the Waterloo Conservation Area of Crosby.