6 Edenduff Terrace, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4NF

6 Edenduff Terrace is a distinctly proportioned mid-Victorian terrace cottage of Grade B2 listing status. Built in the 1860s by the O'Neill family as part of a row of terrace houses for workers on the Shane's Castle estate, it first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1902. The cottage is now one of a block of what was originally four similar dwellings, itself part of a larger row of five such blocks.

The building is a single storey, three-bay terrace house constructed of rubble basalt. The main entrance faces south. The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. A single chimney at the right-hand extremity is common with the adjoining property; it is of red brick with a projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses surmounted by a blocking course of red brick, and is topped with two pots.

The walls are of basalt rubble with a projecting brick eaves course. Red brick flat arches head the openings and blue-black brick provides block dressings, though these are partly obscured by later cement reveals and raised surrounds. The masonry has been repointed in cement at a later date. A cast iron gutter and downpipe run down the right-hand extremity.

The entrance elevation comprises a central doorway flanked on each side by a window. The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white and projecting painted stone cills. The doorway contains a rectangular sheeted timber door surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass in a timber frame. It is fitted with a metal letterbox and knocker and has painted stone base blocks to the frame. Black PVC vertical cable trunking has been added to the left of the doorway.

The rear elevation is single storey with slating matching the front. Three modern rectangular rooflights have been installed in the roof. The walling is similar to the entrance front, except the lower portion is roughly rendered with lime mortar, while the remainder retains old lime mortar pointing to the masonry. A cast iron gutter and downpipe run down the elevation, with a PVC addition at the base. The rear elevation contains a doorway with a small window to its right. The window is a rectangular timber fixed light with a top-hung vent and a projecting painted sandstone cill. The doorway contains a modern sheeted timber half-door set in a moulded frame with modern metal handles and painted stone base blocks on either side. A PVC soilpipe has been installed.

The building stands within a terrace facing the main road but set back from it slightly, with a tarmac access road immediately in front separated from the main road by kerbstones. To the front, the heavily wooded demesne of Shane's Castle is bounded by a basalt rubble wall, with agricultural land surrounding the rest of the area. The rear is accessed by a gravelled driveway along the gable of the adjacent house (No. 5) to the west, opening onto a small gravelled area with outbuildings of no special interest and a garden beyond.

The cottage has lost some of its original features, most notably the lattice glazing that originally fronted the windows. All houses in the terrace blocks are believed to have been fitted with lattice-paned windows originally. Despite these alterations, the building together with the rest of the houses in the terrace row still forms a group of definite character which enjoys a pleasant rural setting to the front.