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

9 Victoria Crescent is a mid-terrace two-storey house built around 1880 in Lisburn, County Antrim. It is constructed of red and yellow brick laid in English garden wall bond with a brick plinth course, and has a pitched roof with artificial slate and a pair of original shared polychromatic brick chimneysstacks with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles.

The front elevation is two bays wide, facing southwest. It features segmental-headed window openings with yellow brick surrounds and black brick keystones. The original windows and door have been replaced, but the house retains much of its late Victorian character externally. The windows are now replacement hardwood casements with painted sandstone sills. The projecting arched doorway has a yellow brick surround with a black brick keystone, impost mouldings, stop-chamfered pilasters, and brick plinth blocks. The door itself is a replacement hardwood glazed door with overlight. Cast-iron guttering runs to a yellow brick angled eaves course, with a plastic downpipe.

The house is rectangular on plan with a modern two-storey extension added to the rear. The left side elevation is abutted by the adjoining house No. 7, and the right side elevation is abutted by adjoining building No. 11. The rear elevation is abutted by a two-storey red brick extension with hardwood casement windows.

This house was built as part of a distinctive terrace of nineteen similar houses laid out as a crescent over two streets—Millbrook Road and Wesley Street—which converge at an unusual acute angle. The terrace is set at a lower level than Queens Road on the east side of the road. It appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map around 1900 and dates from around 1880, showing stylistic echoes of the neighbouring Methodist Church which was opened in 1876. This part of Lisburn was developed towards the end of the nineteenth century as low-cost housing for workers in the nearby linen mills—Barbour's thread mill, Richardson's beetling mill, and the Island flax spinning mill were all a short distance away. The terrace was reportedly built by Barbour's as accommodation for bachelors and spinsters, though census records from the early twentieth century indicate that the majority of residents were actually families. The house was designated second class according to its size and construction, and comprised seven rooms. At the time of the 1901 census, it was occupied by Samuel Dowling, a carpenter aged 73, and his two daughters Bessie and Charlotte, both employed in Barbour's thread mill. By 1911, Bessie and Charlotte remained in the house, continuing to work at the mill.

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