Hapwood House

Hapwood House comprises a pair of large terraced houses, now integrated, and forming part of a row of fifteen properties with a varied but harmonious style. These were built in the mid to later 19th century and have been altered since. The houses are constructed of white-painted stucco with slate roofs and stuccoed chimneys, and feature a cast-iron verandah. They are designed in an Italianate style, with a double-depth plan; No. 11 is single-fronted and No. 12 is double-fronted, alongside back extensions.

The houses are two-and-a-half storeys high, with a 1:2+1:1 window arrangement, creating a strongly articulated five-bay facade. No. 12 projects forward from No. 11, and the left bay of each house is a projecting gabled wing with an open-pedimental gable. A first-floor string course and bracketed eaves and gables are present. The doorways, to the right and centre respectively, have Tuscan pilaster architraves with keyed entablatures, half-glazed doors with side windows, and matching overlights. No. 11 has a four-pane sash window on the first floor and a round-headed dormer to the attic. Its left gabled wing has a three-storey canted bay with four-pane sashes and a hipped, lead-clad roof extended as a canopy. No. 12 has coupled four-pane sash windows at the first floor of the centre. It also has tripartite windows to all floors; those at ground floor are a rectangular bay to the left and a bow to the right, both with Tuscan pilasters and moulded cornices with blocking courses. The first-floor windows have cornices on consoles, a Venetian window at the second floor of the wing, and two dormers in Venetian form. Tall corniced multiple-flue chimneys are present. There is scrolled pierced enrichment above the left bay window of each house. The interior has not been inspected.

The buildings adjoin No. 10 to the right and are linked to No. 13 to the left. Unusually for the block of fifteen houses, this pair lacks a verandah. The listed buildings in Beach Lawn, together with those in Adelaide Terrace, Bath Street, Marine Crescent and Marine Terrace, form a group within the Waterloo Conservation Area of Crosby.