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

A two-storey, two-bay house forming part of a terrace of seven houses. The main entrance is located in a projecting porch on the east elevation.

The east elevation comprises a two-storey main block containing two windows, one to each floor, positioned to the left of the projecting single-storey gabled porch. The main block roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses. One chimney stands at the left-hand extremity, shared with the adjoining property. It is constructed of squared sandstone in regular courses with a plain projecting block cornice and four pots—three of them original octagonal stoneware and one modern.

The wall is smooth rendered with a projecting eaves course on the frieze, all painted white, with black painted reveals to the openings. A metal gutter with cast iron downpipe drains the roof. The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash windows, 2 over 4, with horns, set in exposed sash boxes painted white. Stone cills are projecting and painted black.

The porch has a roof slated to match the main block, but with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter feet. Decorative timber barge boards to the gable are ornamented with scrolling fretwork. A cast iron gutter and downpipe are fitted. Walls are rendered as on the main block, but with raised quoins to the outer corners of the porch, painted black. The front wall of the porch contains a window, forming a pair with the adjoining house. This is a rectangular timber sliding sash window, 1 over 2, with horns, set in a partly recessed frame with plain black painted reveals and a projecting stone cill painted black. The side wall of the porch, facing south, contains the main entrance—a rectangular timber panelled door set in plain reveals with a modern concrete step.

The rear elevation is two-storey with a two-storey gabled rear return. The rear return has smooth rendered walls painted white, with raised quoins to the outer corners of a single-storey projecting rear projection, painted black. All roofs are slated to match the front. The return and rear projection have overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and plain timber barge boards. Cast iron gutters and downpipes are fitted throughout.

The side wall of the return, facing south, contains two doorways and two windows. The doors are rectangular timber sheeted doors. The windows are timber sashed—one 2 over 4 and one 1 over 2, both with horns—set in exposed sash boxes painted white, with plain black painted reveals and projecting concrete cills painted black. The right-hand door serves as the rear door of the ground-floor flat; the left-hand door is the front door for the first-floor flat.

The gable of the return is two-storey, containing windows that are rectangular timber sashed, 2 over 4, with horns, with exposed sash boxes painted white, set in plain black painted reveals and projecting concrete cills painted black.

The gable of the rear projection contains a rectangular timber sheeted door leading into an outhouse bin store.

The building stands within the built-up area of the town, located in a terrace of seven houses which faces the river but is set well back from it. An extensive hardstanding in front is 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 front open area is bounded to the north by a basalt retaining wall surmounted by original iron railings, retaining the end of the elevated main street. To the south, the front open area is bounded by a tall railway viaduct, now defunct, built of snecked basalt rubble.

At the rear is an open yard or compound common to all houses in the terrace, mainly hard surfaced. Slated single-storey basalt rubble garages or sheds form the west boundary to the rear area. A concrete path immediately skirts the rear perimeter of this house.