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

8 Victoria Crescent is a mid-terrace two-storey house with attic, built around 1880 in Lisburn, County Antrim. It forms part of a distinctive crescent of nineteen similar houses originally constructed for workers in the nearby linen mills at Hilden, laid out along a crescent that runs between Millbrook Road and Wesley Street at an unusual acute angle where the two streets converge.

The house is built of red and yellow brick in English garden wall bond, with a brick plinth course. It has a pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles, a pair of shared original polychromatic brick chimneystacks, and a gabled redbrick dormer. The front elevation is two bays wide, with segmental-headed window openings topped with yellowbrick surrounds and black brick keystones, fitted with painted sandstone sills and replacement timber casement windows. The projecting door surround features an arched yellowbrick frame with black brick keystone and impost mouldings, stop-chamfered pilasters, brick plinth blocks, and a replacement timber panelled door with fanlight above. Yellow brick courses run along the angled eaves below a frieze, fitted with plastic rainwater goods. The side elevations are abutted by adjoining houses. A single-storey modern redbrick extension has been added to the rear, with a small enclosed rear yard.

The terrace first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of around 1900 and dates from approximately 1880, showing architectural echoes of the neighbouring Methodist Church, which opened in 1876. This area of Lisburn was developed towards the end of the nineteenth century primarily as low-cost housing for workers at nearby mills including Barbour's thread mill, Richardson's beetling mill, and the Island flax spinning mill. Contemporary advertisements describe the area as "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 superior quality to much of the surrounding housing, and local tradition suggests it 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.

At the 1901 census, the house was occupied by William Henry McCurry, a hackle maker in the flax industry, with his wife and seven children. The house was designated second class according to its size and construction, comprising six rooms. By 1911 it had passed to Andrew McAneney, an engineer, living with his wife, two step-children and three daughters. Census returns show that approximately half the terrace's inhabitants worked in the linen industry, though a wide range of other occupations were also represented.

Despite the loss of original windows, the house retains much of its late Victorian character externally. It has group value with the other houses in this distinctive terrace and with the neighbouring Methodist Church and Manse to the north.