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

19 Edenduff Terrace is a distinctly proportioned mid-Victorian terrace cottage built in the 1860s as part of a row of worker housing on the Shane's Castle estate. The house is a single storey, three-bay structure constructed of rubble basalt, forming one of four similar cottages within a terrace block. Although it has lost some original features, notably the lattice glazing to the front windows, it retains definite character and forms part of a group of considerable architectural merit set in pleasant rural surroundings.

The main entrance faces south. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. A single chimney rises from the left-hand extremity, shared with the adjoining house to the left; it is constructed of red brick with a projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses surmounted by a blocking course of red brick, topped with two pots. The walls are of basalt rubble with a projecting brick eaves course. The original red brick flat arches to window and door heads and block dressings to openings are partly obscured by later cement reveals and raised surrounds. The windows retain lugged surrounds. The masonry appears to retain original lime mortar pointing, though some later cement repairs are evident. Metal guttering and a downpipe are fitted to the left-hand extremity.

The entrance elevation is composed of a central doorway flanked by windows on each side. The windows are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents, painted black and white, with projecting painted stone cills. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber panelled door incorporating a radially glazed fanlight surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of reeded glass, set in a moulded timber frame with a modern metal handle. Painted stone base blocks frame the doorway, and a concrete doorstep is fitted. A modern metal letterbox is mounted on the wall to the left of the doorway, and black PVC cable trunking is positioned to the right.

The rear elevation retains three original rectangular metal rooflights; however, most of the original rear wall is now obscured by a later lean-to extension. The original walling to the right matches the entrance front in construction, with metal guttering. The later extension features smooth cement-rendered walls painted white, with synthetic slates to the roof and overhanging eaves with plain timber fascia and barge board. A PVC gutter is fitted. Windows in the extension are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents in plain reveals with projecting concrete cills. The rear door is a modern rectangular flush timber door with a glazed panel.

The building stands within a terrace of four similar single cottages, itself part of a larger row of five similar blocks. The terrace occupies a rural setting facing the main road but set back slightly, with a tarmac access road immediately in front separated from the main road by kerbstones. The heavily wooded demesne of Shane's Castle, bounded by a basalt rubble wall, faces the terrace row, while the surrounding area consists of agricultural land. Access to the rear is via a concrete driveway along the gable of the adjacent house to the east. Behind the house is a brick-paved path and gravelled area with a wooden outbuilding of no special interest, beyond which is a garden.

The terrace was built by the O'Neill family for workers on the Shane's Castle estate. The precise construction date is not documented, but the row appears for the first time on the 1902 Ordnance Survey map and may be tentatively dated to the 1860s. Originally, all houses in the terrace blocks featured lattice-paned windows to the front. A rear extension was added by 1988, and modern hinged windows replaced the original sash windows of the entrance front in the same year.