15 - 16 Edenduff Terrace, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4NF

This is a house formed from two distinctly proportioned mid-Victorian terrace cottages, now combined into one dwelling. It has lost some original features but notably retains lattice glazing to the front windows. Together with the rest of the houses in the terrace row, it forms a group of definite character enjoying a pleasant rural setting facing the main road.

The building comprises a pair of single-storey terrace houses or cottages constructed of basalt rubble, now combined into one dwelling and forming part of what was originally a terrace of four similar single cottages. The main entrance, located in the former cottage No 15 to the left, faces south. The doorway of the former cottage No 16 to the right no longer functions. Each cottage unit is three bays wide, consisting of a central doorway flanked by windows on each side, giving the overall entrance elevation a width of six bays.

The entrance elevation is roofed in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. Two chimneys are present: one at the left-hand extremity is of red brick with a projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses surmounted by a blocking course and two pots, shared with the adjoining house to the left; the other, to the right-hand gable, is similar but has been rebuilt in new red brick. The walls are of basalt rubble with roughly squared quoins to the right-hand extremity and a projecting brick eaves course. Red brick flat arches head the openings with block dressings, though these are partly obscured by later cement reveals and raised surrounds; surrounds are lugged except those to the right-hand doorway. Lime mortar pointing is used throughout. Metal gutters with metal downpipes run to each extremity. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes of 1 over 1 lights with horns, featuring lattice glazing, all painted white with exposed sash boxes also painted white and projecting painted stone cills. The doorway of No 15 contains a rectangular sheeted timber door surmounted by a plain rectangular fanlight in a plain timber frame, with modern metal letterbox and handle, stone block bases to the frame, and a concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables runs to the right of the doorway.

The east elevation presents a blank gable of basalt rubble, most of which is obscured by rough lime mortar. A brick chimney breast runs flush with the wall to the upper portion. Overhanging eaves feature painted panelled soffits with timber barge boards.

The rear elevation treats the main front block of the two former cottages as one unit, with a long new return to the right-hand side. The front block is slated as the front elevation, with three modern rooflights. The wall is rendered with wet dash of crushed stones swept over a smooth cement-rendered plinth, with a projecting brick eaves course. Raised smooth cement-rendered surrounds surround openings. Metal gutters and a new metal downpipe are present, along with a PVC soil pipe. One large window to the right consists of modern rectangular timber casements with a projecting concrete cill. A large doorway to the left contains double doors of modern rectangular timber glazing surmounted by a decorative reused terracotta plaque. The rear return has similar walling with similar openings but is roofed in synthetic slates. A rendered chimney rises on the gable, and a modern steel-railed balcony to the first floor is positioned in the gable.

The building stands at one end of a block that was originally part of a terrace of four similar single cottages, itself forming part of a row of five such blocks. Built by the O'Neill family as part of a row of terrace houses for workers on the Shane's Castle estate, the terrace was tentatively dated to the 1860s, though the precise date is not known; the row appears for the first time on the Ordnance Survey map of 1902. All houses in the terrace blocks appear originally to have had lattice-paned windows to the front. Nos 15 and 16 were combined into one dwelling around 1986.

The terrace stands in a rural area, facing the main road but set back from it slightly, with a tarmac access road immediately in front, separated from the main road by kerbstones. Facing the terrace row is the heavily wooded demesne of Shane's Castle, bounded by a basalt rubble wall, while the surrounding area consists of agricultural land. A gravelled driveway runs along the gable of No 16 between it and the adjacent block to the east, leading along the side of a garden to a modern garage standing well to the rear of the house. Immediately to the rear is a paved patio.