7 Shane's Terrace, Shane's Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 2AB

7 Shane's Terrace is a mid-Victorian terraced house of distinctive proportion, built around the 1860s as part of a workers' cottage development on the Shane's Castle estate. The terrace of 14 houses, constructed by the O'Neill family, first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, the site having been empty in 1858. Though it has lost some original features, notably the lattice glazing that once decorated its front windows and fanlight, the house retains considerable architectural character as part of a cohesive group.

The building is a single-storey house with attic, constructed of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with fine recessed jointing and red brick dressings. The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. There is one small original flush rooflight to the left, and an original gabled dormer to the right with a timber frame containing a rectangular fixed light with side-hung casement, all plate glass, with horizontal timber boarding above. The dormer is roofed in matching slates with fretted timber barge boards and slate cheeks. A red brick chimney with projecting brick cornice and four pots sits at the right-hand extremity of the ridge, shared with the adjoining house.

The front elevation faces south-west and contains a window to the right of the entrance, both set within red brick block surrounds with flat arches to their heads. The window is a vertically hung timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns and an exposed sash box, with a projecting painted stone cill. The doorway contains a modern rectangular 2-panel glazed timber door with translucent glazing, set below a similarly glazed fanlight in a timber surround, with modern metal fittings and a painted concrete doorstep. An old photograph documents that the windows originally featured diagonal pattern quarry glazing in both sashes, and a first survey in 1970 recorded that the terrace's windows were originally fitted with lattice-paned sashes.

The rear elevation comprises a single-storey rear wall to the right with a lower rear return projecting at the left, the main roof swept down over it. Both rear sections are constructed of roughly coursed basalt rubble, retaining original lime mortar in places but supplemented with later cement pointing. Projecting brick eaves courses run around both sections. The rear wall contains a window and doorway in red brick block dressings, and the return contains a window that has been widened to one side with plain basalt rubble to the jamb. The rear wall window is a timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 without horns and with an exposed sash box and projecting concrete cill. The return window is a modern rectangular fixed light with side-hung casement and top-hung vent with a projecting concrete cill. The doorway in the side of the return contains a modern flush timber door with a translucent glazed panel. Cast iron gutters and downpipes serve the rear wall, with PVC soil and waste pipes on the rear elevations. A recessed area between the rear wall and return is paved in concrete.

The house is set within a conservation area and forms part of the terrace which faces the main road, set back with front gardens. The terrace's 14 houses alternate in pairs with handed plans. The front garden of this property is grassed with a small concrete path leading to a painted iron pedestrian gateway set in plain steel angled posts, bordered by hedges. A gravelled communal rear driveway runs across the rear elevation, beyond which stands a line of basalt rubble outhouses and garages. This house's detached garage has PVC rainwater goods, Bangor blue slates, modern flush timber doors, and modern reticulated pointing to the masonry.