6-10 Shane's Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 2AD

A group of three two-storey houses at 6–10 Shane's Street, Randalstown, comprising two two-storey blocks linked by a single-storey block. The buildings appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1858, though structures may have occupied the site from 1829 or earlier. They have undergone a series of alterations and are of little special architectural or historic interest.

No. 6 Shane's Street is a two-storey house of asymmetrical layout, two windows wide to the main street front, extending by a half-hexagonal end at the left to a longer side elevation which incorporates a gable breaking forward at the left-hand extremity and includes a modern flat-roofed open porch. The main entrance faces south. The roofs are of Bangor blue slates in regular courses. A tall red brick chimney has a dry dash of white stone chippings, with smooth rendered finish within the porch area. The plinth is smooth rendered. Windows are rectangular PVC double-glazed sliding sashes with horns, arranged to resemble 6 over 6. The main entrance is a modern timber glazed screen consisting of a 6-panel door flanked by leaded sidelights surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with segmentally-arched radial glazing. The side elevation includes a modern doorway of similar character and a broad modern rectangular tripartite window of fixed lights and top-hung vents. The building stands on a corner site within the built-up area, abutted on one side by an adjoining building. It faces the main road but is set back behind a short lawn. The front boundary comprises a low basalt rubble wall with large sandstone copings surmounted by original spear-headed iron railings which terminate at the east in a gateway of original cast iron between smooth plastered panelled piers. The boundary to the west is a smooth cement-rendered wall which terminates at the north in a pair of iron gates between plain square rendered piers leading to a driveway flanked by a modern single-storey garage block.

No. 8 Shane's Street is a two-storey, two-bay rendered house standing in a terrace block with the main entrance facing south. The roof is of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with two modern rooflights. One chimney is red brick with original tall stoneware pots. The walls are rendered with dry dash of crushed white stones. Two windows to the first floor and one to the ground floor are modern rectangular timber small-paned fixed lights with three-pane top-hung vents. The entrance is a modern timber doorscreen consisting of a glazed and panelled door set in large rectangular sidelights and fanlight of obscured glass. The end gable to the right is rendered and includes two attic windows of modern rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents. The building stands within the built-up area, set in the terrace block, facing the main road but set back from it with a garden in front. The garden is bounded to the front by original spear-headed iron railings and an original iron gate set between original panelled smooth plastered square piers.

No. 10 Shane's Street is a two-storey, four-bay building with a single-storey wing to the west. The main entrance faces south. The roofs are of Bangor blue slates in regular courses. Two chimneys are red brick. The walls are smooth cement-rendered, lined and blocked. Four windows to the first floor of the two-storey block are original rectangular timber sliding sashes, 2 over 2 with horns, with projecting concrete cills. Three windows to the ground floor of the two-storey block are later rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents. There is spalling to the rendering over original wooden lintels to the extreme right-hand window, with concrete cills. The doorway is set in a concave recess with coved head, containing an original rectangular timber glazed and panelled door which includes fan-mouldings to three small panels, flanked by slim reeded timber columns rising to a thin projecting cornice, with two concrete steps to the doorway. The single-storey wing to the west contains a single window of the same type as the ground-floor windows. Extending to the east is a single-storey garage with rendered walls and hipped slated roof. The end gable of the main block is rendered as the entrance front with plain timber barge boards to overhanging eaves. The rear elevation contains modernised windows. The building stands within the built-up area, facing the road but set back from it with a garden in front. The front garden is bounded by a smooth rendered wall containing a plain iron gate set in modern steel posts, with an original square smooth rendered and panelled boundary pier to the left-hand extremity, common with the adjoining house to the west. At the rear is a grassed area bordered by the single-storey rear return and single-storey outbuildings.

The precise date of construction is not known, but the buildings appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1858. It is uncertain whether the name 'Shane's Lodge' correctly applies to all or any of these three houses; it may relate to buildings behind the street-front terrace. An old photograph shows that originally there was a flat-roofed porch projecting from the front of the block now comprising nos. 6 and 8, and that the same portion of the façade was originally three windows wide to the first floor where it is now four windows wide. The photograph also shows No. 10 as a single-storey building. No. 10 was raised a storey circa 1940. In the first survey in 1971, all the windows of all three houses were described as being "double hung with full glazing bars".