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

5 Edenduff Terrace is a distinctly proportioned mid-Victorian terrace cottage of rubble basalt, built in the 1860s as part of the Shane's Castle estate workers' housing by the O'Neill family. It forms one end of a block of what was originally four similar single cottages, part of a larger row of five such blocks. Though it has lost some original features, notably the lattice glazing to its front windows, the cottage retains sufficient character and grouping value with its neighbours to merit architectural interest.

The building is single storey with three bays facing south towards the main road. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. A single chimney of red brick sits on the left-hand gable, distinguished by a projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses surmounted by a blocking course of red brick and topped with two pots.

The entrance elevation presents roughly squared basalt rubble walls with projecting brick eaves course and roughly squared quoins at the left-hand extremity. The masonry shows what appears to be original lime mortar pointing, though some later cement repairs are evident. Red brick flat arches head the openings with block dressings, though these are partly obscured by later cement reveals and surrounds. The elevation comprises a central doorway flanked by windows on each side. These are rectangular timber sliding sash windows, 1 over 1, with horns, painted white with green-painted sash boxes exposed, and projecting stone cills. The doorway contains a rectangular flush timber door with obscured glass panel, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight similarly glazed in a moulded timber frame. A painted stone base blocks the frame, with a concrete doorstep. Modern additions include a metal letterbox and black PVC cable trunking to the right of the doorway. Cast iron guttering is present but without downpipe.

The west elevation is a blank gable of basalt rubble, much of which is obscured by rough lime mortar. Overhanging eaves feature painted panelled soffits with moulded timber barge boards.

The rear elevation is single storey with roof slated as the front. Three modern rectangular rooflights pierce the roof. Walling is similar to the entrance front except for the bottom portion, which is roughly rendered with lime mortar. The elevation contains a doorway with a small window to its left. The window is a rectangular timber fixed light with a later top-hung vent inserted, having brick dressings obscured by cement rendered surrounds and a projecting painted sandstone cill. The doorway retains an original rectangular timber boarded door set in a broad original moulded frame with old metal doorknob and painted stone base blocks flanking the frame. PVC gutter and downpipe serve this elevation.

The cottage stands in a pleasant rural setting, set slightly back from the main road with a tarmac access road immediately in front, separated from the main road by kerbstones. Facing the terrace row is the heavily wooded demesne of Shane's Castle, bounded by a basalt rubble wall, with agricultural land comprising the surrounding area. A gravelled driveway runs along the gable between this cottage and its adjacent neighbour to the west, leading to a small gravelled area at the rear, beyond which lies a garden containing outbuildings of no special interest and a newly rendered gabled garage currently under construction.

The row appears for the first time on the Ordnance Survey map of 1902. All houses in the terrace blocks are believed to have originally had lattice-paned windows to the front.