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

1 Victoria Crescent is a symmetrical bow-fronted mid-terrace three-bay two-storey house with attic, 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, curving at an unusual acute angle. The house is wedge-shaped on plan, facing west.

The exterior is constructed of redbrick walling laid in English garden wall bond with yellowbrick courses and a brick plinth course. The pitched and curved artificial slate roof is topped with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and features two original polychromatic brick chimneystacks and two gabled redbrick dormers. Plastic rainwater goods are fitted to a yellowbrick angled eaves course and frieze below.

The front elevation is five windows wide with segmental-headed window openings finished with yellowbrick surrounds, painted black brick keystones, and painted sandstone sills. The windows are modern uPVC replacements. A central projecting arched yellowbrick door surround features a painted black brick keystone, impost mouldings, stop-chamfered pilasters, and brick plinth blocks, with a uPVC glazed door and panel. To either side is a three-sided canted bay built in yellow brick with angled brick cornice and roof concealed behind a brick parapet. The left side elevation adjoins number 2, while the right side adjoins number 3. A concave curved rear elevation overlooks a small yard.

The house retains its original internal staircase, though the original windows have been replaced. It was designated first class according to its size and construction materials and comprises nine rooms.

The terrace was built as low-cost housing for workers in nearby linen mills. Barbour's thread mill, Richardson's beetling mill, and the Island flax spinning mill were all in close proximity. Contemporary sources suggest the terrace may have been constructed by Barbour's as accommodation for single workers, though census records from the early twentieth century show it was occupied predominantly by families. The 1901 census records William J MacKnight, a linen manufacturer, living at the house with his wife, two daughters, and a servant girl. By 1911 the occupant was Charles Allerton, an erector of machinery, with his wife and step-son.

The terrace first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map around 1900. It shows stylistic echoes of the neighbouring Methodist Church, opened in 1876. This part of Lisburn developed towards the end of the nineteenth century as housing for mill workers. The house is currently operated as a bed and breakfast.

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