15 Upper Crescent, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT7 1NT

Relatively large three storey rendered town house, one of regency style crescent of ten similar, (but not identical), properties built in 1846 and now converted to offices and flats. The grouping, ‘Upper Crescent’, is set to the E of University Road and faces, over a small public park, Lower Crescent- a similar styled development of 1852 which unlike its counterpart is arranged in straight terrace rather than crescent form. This property is one of the plainer buildings of the grouping. The front elevation is asymmetrical and faces roughly S. To the left on the ground floor is the entrance, which consists of a panelled door and rectangular fanlight. The upper panels of the door have arched heads. The door is encased with panelled pilaster jambs. To the right of the doorway are two tall plain sash windows (with lower lights boarded up). To the first floor are two larger windows set on a cill course. These have sash frames regency (i.e. horizontally orientated) panes to the top sash (4/8). To the second floor are two much smaller windows with Georgian-paned sash frames (3/6). These windows rest on a more pronounced (cornice-like) cill course. The ground floor level is finished in rusticated render, the upper floors in plain render. There is a broad plain course above first floor window height (and below the second floor cill course). On this broad course is a thin moulded string course. Above second floor window height there is a plain course above which is a parapet with plain [?stone] coping. The rear elevation could not be seen in its entirety. To the right hand (E) side is the two storey gabled return with a plain sash window to left on the first floor. To the left (W) the return merges with a two storey projection, (which has a mono-pitched roof). This has a metal sheeted door to the ground floor, with a window with modern frame to the first floor. Both the gable and the S face of the projection are finished in plain cement render. To the rear façade of the main portion of the building there is a window to left on the ground, first and second floors. The upper floor windows have Georgian-paned sash frames (6/6 to the first floor, 3/6 to second floor), with a modern frame to that to the ground floor. To right between first and second floor level there is a tall sash (stairwell) window also with Georgian panes (6/6). This façade is in brick. The inner (W) face of the return and inner (N) face of the projection could not be seen clearly. The gabled roof is slated. There is a large fire escape gabled dormer to rear. There is a tall rendered chimneystack, with projecting coping and uniform pots, to W. Cast iron rw goods.