9 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 upper panels of the door have semicircular heads. The door is encased with a simple architrave. To the left of the doorway are two tall sash windows with Georgian panes (6/6). 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 are three relatively small windows to the ground floor, with modern frames, of the gable of the return, with two windows, with plain sash frames to the first floor. To the right the return merges with another two storey projection, (which has a mono-pitched roof hidden behind a brick parapet). 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 in brick. There is a window to right to on the first and second floors of the rear façade of the main section of the building, with Georgian-paned sash frames (6/6 and 3/6 respectively). To left between first and second floor level there is a tall sash (stairwell) window with Georgian panes (6/6). The rear façade is in brick with the small section ot the lower half painted. The gabled roof is slated. There is a tall rendered chimneystack, with uniform pots, to E. Two small skylight windows to rear. Velux window to rear extension. Cast iron [?and pvc] rw goods.