Antrim Arcade, 18-24 High Street, Antrim, BT41 4AN

Antrim Arcade is a three-storey group of former terrace houses converted into a shopping centre, built in the late Victorian era (probably between 1860 and 1879). The building is located on High Street, Antrim, facing directly onto the pavement as part of a larger terrace forming the town's main street.

The structure combines two blocks of different heights and construction types. The lower block to the right features yellow brick walling with moulded stringcourses and grey stone plain stringcourses and shoulders to window openings. Its roof is covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridges, and dormer roofs have white painted timber barges. Moulded cast iron gutters flank each dormer, with cast iron downpipes discharging into a moulded gutter over the ground floor. Windows to the upper storeys are coupled segmental arched timber sliding sash windows, vertically hung with 1 over 1 panes and horns, set in stop-chamfered reveals.

The higher block to the left is constructed of red brick with yellow brick block dressings to windows in the upper storeys. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates with red terracotta ridges; dormer roofs are similar with moulded terracotta finials and open bargeboards in white painted timber. Moulded cast iron gutters run between dormers, with cast iron downpipes. A red brick chimney rises from this section. Windows to the upper storeys match those of the lower block, also set in stop-chamfered reveals.

The ground floor has been adapted with a later modern three-bay shop front and contains a rectangular alleyway to the left leading to the rear of the original house and beyond, marked by a pair of narrow red brick pillars. The alleyway opens into an arcade of shops, comprising a central entrance flanked by single shops, with fronts constructed in painted timber. The rear elevation has rendered walls and a long modern two-storey rear return with rendered walls (partly painted) and modern rectangular top-hung windows, with an exposed concrete blockwork rear wall. The alleyway from the front is paved in concrete blocks.

The building was formerly a public house and is now within a conservation area. While the upper floors display attractive polychromatic brickwork, it is otherwise of limited architectural or historic significance. It was delisted on 23 December 2005.