3-7, BEACH LAWN

A group of five large, terraced houses at 3-7 Beach Lawn, Crosby, form part of an original row of fifteen, dating from the mid to later 19th century and altered since. The houses are built in an eclectic style incorporating Italianate features. They are constructed of white-painted stucco with slate roofs and stuccoed chimneys, and feature a cast-iron verandah.

The houses follow a double-depth plan, although number 3 has a single-fronted appearance. Numbers 4 to 7 each have a gabled wing on their left side, with each house projecting slightly forward from the neighbouring house to the right, creating a strongly articulated composition. Number 3 is entirely gabled, while the others feature a gabled wing on the left. Moulded sillbands run around all upper floors, and there are bracketed eaves and gables, the latter with open pediments. The gabled bays contain large, canted and pilastered bay windows at ground floor, with two-storeyed wings at the ends (numbers 3 and 7) and in the right-hand bay of number 5. The upper floors have tripartite windows; the second-floor windows are Venetian, and the first-floor windows have pedimental cornices, largely open and segmental. Other ground-floor windows are tripartite, first-floor windows are one-light with open pediments on consoles (mostly segmental), and the second-floor windows are mostly round-headed half-dormers with prominent moulded semi-circular roofs. Each house has a large, square-headed doorway in the bay next to the wing, with narrow side-windows and overlights. Tall, multiple-flue corniced chimneys are present. An attractive cast-iron verandah runs along the front of the entire range, featuring open-work standards with moulded capitals and arched open-work spandrels, with a glazed roof that rises to a pitched canopy in front of the doorway of number 7. The interiors have not been inspected.

The buildings adjoin numbers 1 and 2 to the right and numbers 8 and 9 to the left. Together with those in Adelaide Terrace, Bath Street, Marine Crescent and Marine Terrace, the listed buildings form a group within the Waterloo Conservation Area of Crosby.