14 Victoria Crescent, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT27 4TG

14 Victoria Crescent, Lisburn, is a mid-terrace two-storey house with attic, built around 1880 as part of a distinctive nineteen-house terrace laid out in a crescent formation across Wesley Street and Millbrook Road. Originally constructed to house workers in the nearby linen mills at Hilden, it forms part of a remarkable late Victorian workers' housing scheme of better quality than typical local accommodation.

The house is built of red and yellow brick in English garden wall bond with a brick plinth course. The roof is pitched natural slate with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles. Two original polychromatic brick chimneystack survive to the west, with a replacement brick example to the east, and a gabled redbrick dormer rises from the roof. Plastic rainwater goods are fitted to the yellow brick angled eaves course and frieze below.

The front elevation, facing north, is two windows wide. Windows have segmental-headed openings with yellow brick surrounds and black brick keystones, though the original glazing has been replaced with uPVC and concrete sills fitted. The principal door is set within a projecting arched yellow brick surround with a painted black brick keystone, impost mouldings, stop-chamfered pilasters and brick plinth blocks. The door itself is modern uPVC with a fanlight above. Despite loss of original windows, the house retains considerable late Victorian character in its external appearance.

A two-storey modern rendered extension has been added to the rear, with a small enclosed yard beyond.

The terrace first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of around 1900 and shows stylistic echoes of the neighbouring Methodist Church opened in 1876. This area of Lisburn developed rapidly in the final decades of the nineteenth century to provide low-cost housing for workers at Barbour's thread mill, Richardson's beetling mill and the Island flax spinning mill, all situated nearby. According to contemporary sources, this particular terrace was of superior quality and was built by Barbour's as accommodation for unmarried workers, though census records from the early twentieth century indicate that most residents were actually families. In 1901, the house was occupied by James Lynass, a preparing master, his wife and six children, three of whom worked in the linen industry. By 1911 it was home to Robert Irvine, a wood turner, his wife and six children, with older children employed as a preparing room worker and linen finisher. The house was classified as 2nd class by size and construction, comprising six rooms.

The building has group value with the other eighteen houses in the distinctive crescent terrace and with the neighbouring Methodist Church and Manse to the north.