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

13 Victoria Crescent is a mid-terrace three-bay two-storey house built around 1880 in polychromatic brick with an integral carriage arch. It forms part of a distinctive crescent of nineteen similar houses laid out across Wesley Street and Millbrook Road, which converge at an unusual acute angle. The house was constructed as workers' accommodation for the linen mills at Hilden, particularly for Barbour's Thread Mill, and retains considerable late Victorian character despite loss of original windows.

The building is rectangular on plan facing southwest with a modern extension added to the rear. The pitched roof is covered in artificial slate with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and a polychromatic brick chimneystack to the north. Plastic rainwater goods are fitted to the yellow brick angled eaves course. The walls are constructed in red brick laid in English garden wall bond with yellow brick courses and a brick plinth course.

The front elevation is three windows wide with segmental-headed openings featuring yellow brick surrounds, black brick keystones and sandstone sills. These now contain uPVC replacement windows. The doorway projects forward with a yellow brick surround incorporating a black brick keystone, impost mouldings and stop-chamfered pilasters with brick plinth blocks. The replacement hardwood door is set in its original timber frame with original overlight and opens onto a concrete step. The segmental-headed carriage arch in yellow brick with stop-chamfered detail contains painted boarded-timber doors. The left and right side elevations abut the adjoining houses. A two-storey flat-roofed extension with pebbledash walling and uPVC windows has been added to the rear.

The terrace has group value with the other eighteen houses in the crescent and with the neighbouring Methodist Church, which opened in 1876, and its Manse. The houses first appear on the third edition Ordnance Survey map around 1900. Historical records show that around half the early twentieth-century inhabitants worked in the linen industry. Census records indicate that at the time of the 1901 census the house was occupied by Thomas Matchett, a sorting clerk and telegraphist, with his wife and three young children. By 1911 it was home to Joseph Topping, a linen finisher, and his three daughters, one of whom worked as a winder in the flax mill. The house was classified as second class by size and construction materials and contained five rooms.