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

A group of three two-storey houses comprising two two-storey blocks linked by a single storey block.

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 building has hipped roofs of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, a tall red brick chimney with dry dash of white stone chippings but smooth rendered within the porch area, and a smooth rendered plinth. Gutters and downpipes are PVC. Windows are rectangular PVC double-glazed sliding sashes with horns, with an arrangement of glazing resembling 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 of the town, abutted on one side by an adjoining building. It faces the main road but is set back behind a short lawn which extends to cover a large area to the west. The front is bounded by a low basalt rubble wall with large sandstone copings surmounted by original spear-headed iron railings which terminate at the east in a gateway. The gateway comprises an original cast iron gate between smooth plastered panelled piers. The western boundary 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. The driveway is 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 its main entrance facing south. The entrance elevation has a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, two modern rooflights, and one red brick chimney with original tall stoneware pots. Walls are rendered with dry dash of crushed white stones. Gutters and downpipes are PVC. 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 that are modern rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents.

The building stands within the built-up area of the town, set in a 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 and its main entrance facing south. The entrance elevation has roofs of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, two red brick chimneys, and smooth cement rendered walls lined and blocked. Gutters and downpipes are cast iron. 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 rendering over original wooden lintels to the extreme right-hand window, with concrete cills. The doorway is set in a concave recess with a coved head to the opening and contains 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. Two concrete steps lead to the doorway. The single-storey wing to the west contains a single window matching those of the ground floor. 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 of the town, 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. An original square smooth rendered and panelled boundary pier stands at 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.

In the first survey in 1971, all the windows of all three houses were described as being double hung with full glazing bars.