4 Parade Ground, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AA

A two-storey, two-bay house forming part of a terrace of seven houses in Randalstown. The building is of Grade B2 heritage value.

The east elevation presents the principal front, with a projecting single-storey gabled porch containing the main entrance. The main block above the porch comprises two storeys, each with a single window. The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with one chimney at the right-hand extremity shared with the adjoining property. The chimney is smooth rendered with a plain projecting brick cornice and three modern pots. The wall is smooth rendered and white painted, with projecting eaves course on the frieze. All window and door reveals are painted black. Metal guttering with cast iron downpipes is fitted throughout.

The windows are rectangular timber sashes, painted white, with 2 over 4 glazing and horns, set in exposed sash boxes painted white. They rest on projecting stone cills painted black. The porch window is a 1 over 2 timber sliding sash with horns in a partly recessed frame, and forms a pair with a matching window in the adjoining house. The porch itself is roofed in matching Bangor blue slates with overhanging eaves exposing rafter feet. Decorative timber barge boards to the gable are ornamented with scrolling fretwork. The porch walls are rendered and white painted, with raised quoins to the outer corners painted black. The north-facing side wall of the porch contains the main entrance: a rectangular timber panelled door set in plain reveals, with a concrete step.

The rear elevation comprises a two-storey main block with a two-storey gabled rear return. The main block wall is smooth rendered with plain projecting eaves course, matching the front. The rear return has smooth rendered white-painted walls with raised quoins to the outer corners of a single-storey rear projection, quoins painted black. All roofs are slated to match the front. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and plain timber barge boards are fitted to the return and rear projection.

The south-facing side wall of the return contains two doorways and two windows. The doors are rectangular timber sheeted. The windows are timber sashes with 2 over 4 and 1 over 2 glazing respectively, with horns, set in exposed sash boxes painted white, in plain reveals painted black, with projecting concrete cills painted black. The left door serves as the rear door of the ground floor flat; the right door is the front door to the first floor flat. The two-storey gable of the return contains matching timber sashes (2 over 4) with horns and exposed sash boxes. The gable of the rear projection contains a rectangular timber sheeted door leading to an outhouse bin store.

The building stands within the built-up area of the town, set back substantially from the river on an extensive hardstanding surfaced partly in tarmac. The front boundary to the hardstanding is formed by a low rendered retaining wall to the riverbank, with a large metal pipe across it on concrete supports, viewed through a screen of mature trees. The north boundary of the front open area is formed by a basalt retaining wall surmounted by original iron railings, which retains the end of the elevated main street. To the south, a tall railway viaduct, now defunct, built of snecked basalt rubble, bounds the area. At the rear, an open yard or compound common to all houses in the terrace is mainly hard-surfaced, with slated single-storey basalt rubble garages or sheds forming the west boundary. A concrete path skirts the rear perimeter of the house.