7 & 8 Edenduff Terrace, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4NF

7 & 8 Edenduff Terrace is a house formed from two mid-Victorian terrace cottages, now combined into a single dwelling. It is part of what was originally a terrace of four similar single cottages built by the O'Neill family as workers' housing on the Shane's Castle estate. The terrace does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map until 1902, and is tentatively dated to the 1860s. The two cottages were combined into one dwelling around 1989.

The building is constructed of basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins. The front entrance elevation, facing south, originally consisted of two separate cottage units, each three bays wide with a central doorway flanked by windows on each side. The combined property now presents a unified entrance elevation six bays wide. The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. There are two chimneys on the front elevation: one at the left-hand extremity (shared with the adjoining house) and one on the right-hand gable. Both are of red brick with projecting blue-black brick cornices of three courses surmounted by a blocking course of red brick and two pots each; the right-hand chimney was rebuilt with rustic brick in place of the original red brick.

The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash with 1 over 1 glazing and horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white and projecting painted stone cills. The openings are topped with red brick flat arches and block dressings, though these are partly obscured by later cement reveals and raised surrounds. There is a projecting brick eaves course and cast iron guttering but no downpipes. The original lattice glazing to the front windows has been lost.

The doorway to the former cottage No 7 on the left contains a rectangular sheeted timber door surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass in a moulded timber frame, with painted stone base blocks and a concrete doorstep. The doorway to the right (former No 8), which now functions as the main entrance, is similar but equipped with modern fittings including a metal letterbox, knob and knocker. Black PVC vertical cabling trunking is present to the right of the left-hand doorway, set in a cast iron pipe at the base.

The east elevation is a blank gable of basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins at the extremities and repointed masonry. An old brickwork chimney breast is flush with the wall on the upper portion of the gable but is much obscured by smeared pointing. The roof verges are virtually flush, with slightly projecting smooth cement rendered strips running from the eaves to the base of the chimney; a timber kneeler is visible on the left-hand eaves, with another on the right obscured by creeper.

The rear elevation treats the two former houses as one unit. It is rendered with wet dash of crushed stones and a slightly projecting smooth cement rendered plinth. The render and plinth stop short at the left-hand extremity to reveal part of the original quoins. The roof is slated as at the front and contains four modern rooflights. A projecting break eaves course runs across, with parts of the wall covered by creeper. There is cast iron guttering with a cast iron downpipe on the left-hand side, supplemented by modern PVC soil and waste pipes. The rear elevation contains one doorway and three windows. The doorway has a rectangular timber sheeted half-door surmounted by a fanlight of obscured glass in a modern moulded timber frame with smooth cement rendered reveals and a concrete doorstep. The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash with 1 over 1 glazing and horns, set in exposed sash boxes with projecting concrete cills.

The building stands at one end of a block forming part of what was originally a terrace of four similar single cottages. This block is itself part of a row of five similar blocks. The terrace occupies a rural setting facing the main road but set back slightly from it, 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 across the road, with agricultural land surrounding the remainder of the area. A gravelled driveway runs along the gable of house No 8 between it and the adjacent block to the east, leading to a large paved area at the rear with a gravelled and landscaped garden beyond. All houses in the terrace blocks originally had lattice-paned windows to the front. The property retains definite group character with the rest of the terrace despite the loss of original features.