10 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 right on the ground floor is the entrance, which consists of a four panel timber door and rectangular fanlight. The door is encased with panelled pilaster jambs. To the left of the doorway are two tall plain sash windows. To the first floor are two larger windows set on a cill course. These have sash frames regency (i.e. horizontally orientated) panes (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 (W) side is the two storey gabled return. There is a plain sash window to the first floor. To the right the return merges with another two storey projection, (which has a mono-pitched roof). This has a large modern garage type door to ground floor and a plain sash window to the first floor. Both the gable and the S face of the projection are largely in brick, though much of the lower half of the gable is rendered. The rear façade of the main portion of the building (or the other faces of the return and projection) could not be seen in their entirety. Internal evidence shows us that there is a Georgian-paned sash window (6/6) to right on the floor of the main rear façade, with a panelled and glazed fire escape door to right on both first and second floors. To left between first and second floor level there is a sash (stairwell) window with Georgian panes (6/6). The fire escape is shared with the neighbouring property to E (no.11). The gabled roof is slated. To rear there is a recent looking pitched roof dormer to left (with felted roof and squat modern window). To immediate left of this is a broader flat-roofed dormer, set close to the ridge. There is a tall rendered chimneystack, with coping and uniform pots, to E. Cast iron rw goods.