6 Shane's Terrace, Shane's Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 2AB

This is a single-storey terrace house with attic, distinctly proportioned in mid-Victorian style, built of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with fine recessed jointing and red brick dressings. Despite the loss of some original interior and exterior features, it retains definite character as part of the broader group.

The front elevation faces south-west. A projecting red brick eaves course runs beneath a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. One small original flush rooflight sits to the right; a gabled dormer to the left has a slated roof with timber barge boards of fretted pattern and slate-cheeks. The dormer front contains a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement in plate glass, set in a timber frame with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A shared chimney rises at the left extremity of the ridge; it is red brick with projecting brick cornice, four pots, two television aerials, and crudely applied pointing to the front face.

The front elevation contains one window to the left of the main doorway. Both are set in red brick block surrounds with flat arches to their heads. The window is a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung 1 over 1 with horns and exposed sash box, with a projecting painted stone cill. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 2-panel glazed door stained brown with translucent glazing, set below a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight. Modern metal handle and letterbox, a prominent metal strip to the door base, and one concrete step complete the entrance. Cast iron guttering (without downpipe) runs beneath the eaves.

Originally, the front windows and fanlight featured lattice glazing. An old photograph documents diagonal pattern quarry glazing in both sashes of the windows in the terrace's west gable, and a 1970 survey recorded that one house retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and fanlight, suggesting all windows were similarly glazed when built.

The rear elevation is two-storey. The original rear wall and return have been built up beyond their original height. The rear roof above the later extension is Bangor blue slates; the extension itself has a flat roof. Walls are rendered with wet dash of crushed black stones; timber fascia runs to the eaves; PVC gutters, downpipe, and PVC soil pipes are modern additions. Rectangular timber windows with fixed lights and top-hung vents are fitted to the extension, all with projecting concrete cills. The rear door in the side of the return is a modern rectangular timber 2-panel, varnished brown, with the top panel containing translucent glass. A recessed concrete paved area occupies the corner between the rear wall and return.

The house was built by the O'Neill family as part of a terrace of workers' cottages for the Shane's Castle estate. The exact date is not known, but the terrace appears for the first time on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, with the site shown as empty on the 1858 map. It is tentatively dated to the 1860s.

The house stands within a terrace of 14 properties facing the main road but set back with front gardens. The houses alternate in pairs with handed plans. The front garden is grassed with concrete paths leading to the pedestrian gateway and across the front of the house. A small modern painted iron gate set in steel angle posts provides access; the garden is bounded by hedges. A gravelled communal driveway runs across the rear elevation, beyond which stands a line of basalt rubble outhouses and garages, some with rendered side walls. The detached garage for this house has PVC rainwater goods, Bangor blue slates, a modern steel up-and-over door, and a modern metal flue pipe.