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

13 Shane's Terrace is a single-storey terrace house with attic, built of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with red brick dressings. It dates to around the 1860s, built by the O'Neill family as part of a terrace of workers' cottages for the Shane's Castle estate. The house first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, with the site shown as empty on the 1858 map.

The roof is covered 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. The dormer roof is slated to match, with timber barge boards of fretted pattern and slated cheeks. The front of the dormer contains a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement in plate glass, set in a timber frame with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A ridge chimney with red brick and projecting brick cornice sits at the right-hand extremity, common with the adjoining house, and has four pots. The eaves course is of projecting red brick. Cast iron guttering runs around, though no downpipes are present.

The main front elevation faces south-west. It contains one window to the right of the doorway, both set in red brick block surrounds with flat arches to the head. The window is a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns and exposed sash box, with a projecting unpainted sandstone cill. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 2-panel glazed door painted white with translucent glazing, set below a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight in a timber surround, with modern aluminium fittings.

The house has lost some of its original features. Historic photographs and a 1970 survey record that the windows originally had diagonal pattern quarry glazing and lattice paned sashes to both the front windows and fanlight, though these have since been replaced with plate glass.

The rear elevation comprises a single-storey rear wall to the right with a lower projecting rear return to the left, with the main roof swept down over it. The rear wall and return walls are of roughly coursed basalt rubble with later, crudely executed repointing in places. Brickwork block dressings frame windows and doors, though the window in the return has been widened with basalt and brick used to the left-hand jamb. Cast iron gutters and downpipe serve the rear wall; the return has PVC soil and waste pipes. The rear window is a rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns and exposed sash boxes, with painted cement rendered reveals and projecting painted sandstone cill. The doorway in the side of the return contains a modern rectangular flush timber door with translucent glazed panel. The window in the return is a modern rectangular timber fixed light with casement and thin projecting concrete cill with cement rendered reveals. A recessed concrete area lies between the rear wall and return. A television aerial is attached to the side wall of the return.

The house stands within a terrace of 14 houses facing the main road but set back with front gardens. The houses alternate in pairs with handed plans. The front garden is grassed with a concrete path to the front pedestrian gateway, which consists of a small modern iron gate set in square wooden posts. The garden is bounded by hedges. A gravelled communal driveway runs across the rear. Beyond the rear driveway is a line of basalt rubble outhouses and garages, some with rendered side walls. The detached garage for this house has Bangor blue slates, modern flush timber doors, timber fascia, modern metal flue pipe, and PVC rainwater goods.

Despite the loss of original glazing and some interior features, the house retains its distinctly proportioned mid-Victorian character and, together with the rest of the terrace, forms a group of definite character. It stands within the Randalstown Conservation Area.