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

A single-storey terraced house with attic, built of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with fine jointing (now crudely applied and slightly smeared in places) and red brick dressings. Constructed in the 1860s as part of a terrace of fourteen workers' cottages built by the O'Neill family for the Shane's Castle estate, the house first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, though the site was empty in 1858. The building retains the distinctly proportioned character typical of mid-Victorian architecture, though it has lost some original interior and exterior features.

The front elevation faces south-west and contains one window to the right of the doorway, both set in red brick block surrounds with flat arches to their heads. The window is a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung with 1 over 1 panes and horns, with an exposed sash box. It has a projecting sandstone cill, unpainted. The doorway contains a modern rectangular sheeted timber door below a plain glazed rectangular fanlight, all set in a timber surround with modern metal doorknob and letterbox; the doorstep is concrete. Both windows and the fanlight have lost their original lattice glazing—an old photograph shows diagonal quarry glazing in the west gable windows, and a 1970 survey recorded that one house in the terrace retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and fanlight, suggesting all windows were originally similarly glazed.

The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. One small original flush rooflight sits to the left; to the right is an original gabled dormer with slated roof and timber barge boards of fretted pattern. The dormer cheeks are slated and the front contains a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement, all plate glass in a timber frame with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A chimney on the roof ridge at the right-hand extremity is shared with the adjoining house; it is red brick with a projecting brick cornice, four pots, and a television aerial, though the pointing to its front face is crudely executed. A projecting red brick eaves course runs around the building; cast iron guttering is present but has no downpipes.

The rear elevation is two-storey, with the original rear wall and rear return built up beyond their original height. Bangor blue slates cover the rear roof above later extensions, with a flat roof to the extension itself. The walls are rendered with wet dash crushed stone; timber fascia is present to the eaves with PVC gutters and downpipes. Modern rectangular timber windows with fixed lights, top-hung vents, and double glazing have been installed, set in thin projecting concrete cills. A modern rectangular flush timber rear door with glazed panel is located in the side of the return. PVC soil pipes are present. A recessed area between the rear wall and return is concreted.

The house stands within a terrace that faces the main road but is set back from it with front gardens. The fourteen houses alternate in pairs with handed plans. The front garden is grassed with a concrete path to a small modern painted iron gate set in modern scrolling ironwork posts, and is bounded by hedges. A gravelled communal driveway runs across the rear elevation, beyond which is a line of basalt rubble outhouses or garages, some with rendered side walls. The detached outbuilding for this house has PVC rainwater goods, Bangor blue slates, a small original timber door, and a modern metal flue pipe.

Despite the loss of original lattice glazing and other alterations, the building retains definite character as part of its terraced group and remains graded as a building of regional importance within Randalstown Conservation Area.