14 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 and glazed door and rectangular fanlight (this door has not been used for some years). 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 as before to the first floor. Both the gable and the S face of the projection are finished in plain cement render. The rear façade of the main portion of the building (or the other faces of the return and projection) could not be seen. Internal evidence shows that there is a window to left on the ground, first and second floors of the main rear façade, all with Georgian-paned sashes (6/6 to ground and first floor, 3/6 to second floor) To right between first and second floor level there is a tall sash (stairwell) window also with Georgian panes (6/6). This façade appears to be mainly in brick The gabled roof is slated. There is a tall rendered (shared) chimneystack, with projecting coping and uniform pots, to W. There is a smaller chimneystack to the gable of the return. Cast iron rw goods.