Single crystal X-ray studies of U 2 Te 5 revealed that this compound crystallizes in the monoclinic system with a = 34.42(2) b = 4.181(1) c = 6.074(3) β = 95.43(3)°. The crystal structure was solved in the C2/m space group and refined to final values of reliability factors R(F) = 0.031 and Rω(F) = 0.038, corroborating other recent results. The two crystallographically independent uranium atoms are coordinated to eight tellurium atoms in a bicapped trigonal prismatic geometry. The layered structure is built up from stacking along the a-direction of UTe 2 slabs separated by Van der Waals gaps. Magnetic measurements reveal that U 2 Te 5 exhibits paramagnetic behaviour down to 2K, and electrical resistivity measurements on a single crystal indicate semiconducting behaviour.