14 Lower Crescent and 2-5 Crescent Gardens, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT7 1NS

A typical red brick late Victorian two-and-a-half storey terrace built in 1898, comprising four double-fronted houses and a corner property to the northern end with its entrance in the gable. The terrace originally consisted of six properties, but the southern property was demolished around 1983 and replaced with a large modern office building in brick, designed to echo the neighbouring dormers and bays in style.

The buildings sit on slightly sloping ground running north to south, positioned south of Lower Crescent and north of Upper Crescent. All properties have since been converted to office use.

The four double-fronted houses are virtually identical in design, varying only in their window frame choices. Each has its main entrance centred on the ground floor, featuring a panelled timber door and rectangular fanlight. A narrow decorative moulded stringcourse runs along the doorway lintel. The lintels are sandstone, though most are now painted. Flanking the entrance on both sides is a single-storey canted bay with a shallow hipped roof of varying coverings. Each bay face contains a window with either a plain sash or recent PVC frame made to resemble sash windows. The bays have projecting brick eaves courses and bevelled brick or rendered bases with sandstone lintels.

The first floor displays five windows arranged as two pairs with a single window to the centre, all with sandstone lintels and a stringcourse above. The uppermost level features two gabled half-dormers with overhanging eaves with shaped barges and finials, each containing a window. A gutter course sits just below the half-dormer level. The roofline is slated, with a row of large shared red brick chimneypots.

The rear of each property originally had a two-storey lean-to projection, though most have been greatly extended. The addition to number 4 is particularly notable, being a large two-storey flat-roofed construction covering the entire former open yard. Some properties have Velux windows and flat-roofed dormers to the rear.

The corner property to the north end is larger than the rest and is accessed via the gable. It has a large, mainly two-storey gabled return. The entrance sits to the left of centre on the north-facing gable, sheltered by a pitched roof hood supported on curved timber brackets. Immediately to the left of the entrance is a canted bay matching the rest of the terrace. The north face of the two-storey return, flush with the gable, contains two tall sash windows on the ground floor and two smaller sash windows on the first floor. The gable itself has three unevenly spaced first-floor windows, with that to the far right considerably taller than the others—this window alone being a non-sash frame. A small window sits on the uppermost floor. The north elevation matches the double-fronted properties, except without the entrance and with four first-floor windows instead of five. All gable windows are sash except the tall first-floor window to the far right.