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

7 Victoria Crescent is a mid-terrace, two-bay, two-storey house built around 1880 in polychromatic brick. It forms part of a distinctive crescent of nineteen similar houses laid out across Wesley Street and Millbrook Road, following an unusual acute angle where the two streets converge. The house was built to accommodate workers in the nearby linen mills at Hilden and has group value with the other houses in the terrace, as well as with the neighbouring Methodist Church and Manse to the north.

The building is rectangular on plan facing southwest with a modern single-storey extension added to the rear. It has a pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and two original shared polychromatic brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods run to a yellowbrick angled eaves course, with a plastic downpipe. The walling is laid in red brick in English garden wall bond with yellowbrick courses and a brick plinth course. The front elevation is two windows wide and steps up from the adjoining house. Segmental-headed window openings feature yellowbrick surrounds, black brick keystones, painted sandstone sills and uPVC windows. A projecting arched yellowbrick door surround has a black brick keystone, impost mouldings, stop-chamfered pilasters, brick plinth blocks and a uPVC door. The left side elevation is abutted by the adjoining house No.5, and the right side elevation by No.9. The rear features a flat-roofed redbrick extension with uPVC door and window.

The terrace first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of around 1900. It dates from around 1880 and displays stylistic echoes of the neighbouring Methodist church, which opened in 1876. This part of Lisburn began developing towards the end of the nineteenth century with low-cost housing for mill workers. Barbour's thread mill, Richardson's beetling mill and the Island flax spinning mill were all located nearby. The Lisburn Standard of 1898 advertises dwellings in the adjacent Low Road as being "one of the best letting districts in the town, convenient to Messrs Barbour's Mills and other large public works". The present terrace was of better quality than other housing in the area and was reportedly built by Barbour's as accommodation for bachelors and spinsters, though census records from the early twentieth century show that the majority of residents were actually families. Early occupants worked across various trades, though around half were employed in the linen industry, mostly in thread production. The larger houses around the Wesley Street and Millbrook Road curve operated as boarding houses. By 1911, the house was designated 2nd class and comprised seven rooms. Despite loss of its original windows and door, the house retains much of its late Victorian character externally.