3 & 4 Edenduff Terrace, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4NF

This is a house formed from two distinctly proportioned mid-Victorian terrace cottages, now combined into a single dwelling. It stands at one end of a block that was originally part of a terrace of four similar single cottages, itself one of five such blocks built by the O'Neill family as workers' housing for the Shane's Castle estate. The row appears for the first time on the Ordnance Survey map of 1902 and may be tentatively dated to the 1860s. Despite the loss of some original features, most notably the lattice glazing to the front windows, the property together with the rest of the houses in the terrace row still forms a group of definite character, enjoying a pleasant rural setting facing the main road.

The building is a pair of single-storey terrace cottages of basalt rubble. The main entrance faces south, located in the former cottage No 3; the doorway located in the former cottage No 4 no longer functions as a door. Each original cottage unit is three bays wide, consisting of a central doorway flanked by a window on each side, giving the overall entrance elevation a width of six bays.

The entrance elevation has a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. One chimney stands on the right-hand gable: red brick with a projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick and topped with two pots. A similar chimney is positioned at the left-hand extremity, shared with the adjoining house. The walls are 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. Later repointing has been smeared over parts of the masonry. Cast iron gutters with cast iron downpipes are positioned at each extremity.

The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, one over one, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes also painted white and projecting stone cills painted white. The doorway in No 3, to the left, contains a rectangular sheeted timber door surmounted by a rectangular plain glazed fanlight in an unmoulded timber frame. It has a modern metal letterbox and knocker, with painted stone base blocks to the frame and a concrete painted doorstep. The doorway to No 4, to the right, is similar except it lacks ironmongery and the fanlight is blocked with a painted wooden panel. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables is positioned to the left of the doorway to former No 4.

The east elevation is a blank gable rendered up to the base of the chimney with a wet dash of crushed stones swept over a smooth cement rendered plinth. A small PVC grille sits to the right-hand side of the gable, with flush verges to the roof.

The rear elevation treats the two former houses as a single unit. The roof is slated as on the entrance front, with a broad central flat-roofed dormer rising from just above the eaves. The dormer is constructed of timber with vertical boarding to front and cheeks and four rectangular timber windows comprising fixed lights and side-hung casements. A PVC gutter and downpipe serve the dormer. The wall is rendered with a wet dash of crushed stones swept over a smooth cement rendered plinth, with a timber eaves board and PVC gutter and downpipes. A PVC soilpipe is present. Three windows to the rear wall are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with side-hung casements and top-hung vents, set in smooth rendered reveals with thin projecting concrete cills. A doorway contains a modern rectangular panelled door incorporating a radial glazed fanlight, set in a plain timber frame with a recessed rendered panel above.

The building 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 rest of the surrounding area consists of agricultural land. A gravelled driveway runs along the gable of house No 4, between it and the gable of the adjacent block to the east, and leads to a large concrete and gravelled area at the rear of the house, with a lawn beyond.