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

A mid-terrace two-bay two-storey house built around 1880, constructed in polychromatic brickwork with red and yellow brick laid in English garden wall bond, featuring a brick plinth course. The pitched roof is covered in artificial slate with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and has a rebuilt redbrick chimneystack to the south gable. Plastic rainwater goods run from a yellow brick angled eaves course.

The front elevation facing southwest is two windows wide. Windows are housed in segmental-headed openings with yellow brick surrounds, black brick keystones, and sandstone sills, now fitted with uPVC frames. The front door is set within a projecting yellow brick surround with black brick keystone, impost mouldings, stop-chamfered pilasters, and brick plinth blocks, opening onto two concrete steps with an overlight above, also now uPVC. The left side elevation is abutted by the adjoining house No. 13, while the right side is abutted by adjoining building No. 17. A two-storey flat-roofed extension with pebbledash walling and uPVC windows has been added to the rear.

The house terminates the southern end of a distinctive crescent of nineteen similar houses laid out across Wesley Street and Millbrook Road on the east side of Queens Road at a lower level. Despite loss of original windows and door, and internal alterations, the house retains much of its late Victorian character externally.

Built as workers' housing for employees of the nearby linen mills—particularly Barbour's thread mill, Richardson's beetling mill, and the Island flax spinning mill—the terrace first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of around 1900. The terrace shows stylistic echoes of the neighbouring Methodist Church, which opened in 1876. Census records from 1901 show the house occupied by Thomas Haire, a hackle maker, his wife, and five children; by 1911 it was home to George Flannigan, a joiner, and his wife. The house was designated as second class according to size and construction, comprising five rooms. The terrace is noted in the Lisburn Standard of 1898 as being in "one of the best letting districts in the town, convenient to Messrs Barbour's Mills and other large public works." Evidence suggests the larger houses around the curve of Wesley and Millbrook Streets were operated as boarding houses. The house has group value with the other eighteen houses in the terrace and with the Methodist Church and Manse to the north.