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

14 Shane's Terrace is a mid-Victorian terrace house of distinctive proportions, built in the 1860s as part of a workers' cottage development on the Shane's Castle estate. It forms part of a group of 14 houses of definite character, though it has lost some original interior and exterior features, notably the lattice glazing that once decorated the gable and front windows and fanlight.

The house is a single storey structure with attic, constructed of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with brick dressings and flush pointing, now crudely applied. The roof is clad in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. A small original flush rooflight sits to the right, while to the left is an original gabled dormer with a slated roof and fretted timber barge boards. 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 ridge chimney to the left extremity, common with the adjoining house, is built of red brick with projecting brick cornice and four pots. Tooled arris detailing marks the quoins at the right-hand extremity. A projecting red brick eaves course runs across the front, with cast iron guttering but no downpipe.

The front elevation faces south-west and contains one window to the left 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 and projecting painted stone cill. The doorway holds a modern rectangular timber 2-panel glazed door painted white with translucent glazing, set beneath a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight in a timber surround; a modern aluminium letterbox has been added. The end gable contains two windows, one at ground floor and one at attic level, similar to the front window but with unpainted concrete cills. The gable walling is of similar basalt construction, with modern reticulated or ribbon-type pointing that is more recent to the attic portion. Tooled arrises mark the quoins at each extremity. Oversailing eaves feature sheeted soffits and decorative timber barge boards matching the dormer pattern.

The rear elevation comprises a blank single storey rear wall to the left with a lower projecting rear return to the right, the main roof sweeping down over it and slated as the front. The rear walls are of roughly coursed basalt rubble with original lime mortar in places, though later lime mortar repointing and some cement pointing are also evident. A projecting brick eaves course runs along the rear wall; the return has a projecting smooth cement-rendered eaves course. Cast iron gutters with cast iron downpipes serve the rear wall, while the return has a PVC soil pipe and PVC waste pipes. Tooled arrises mark the quoins at the left-hand extremity of the rear wall, though the return's corner quoins are not tooled. A TV aerial is mounted on the rear wall. The side wall of the return contains a modern rectangular timber panelled and glazed door of modern design in a broad raised cement-rendered surround that obscures most of the original brick block dressings. A modern rectangular timber window with fixed lights and top-hung vents sits in smooth cement-rendered reveals with a thin projecting concrete cill; the original brick block dressings are partly missing where the window was widened to the left, with concrete blockwork infilling part of the wall below the cill. The recessed area between rear wall and return is concrete.

The house stands at the extreme right-hand end of the terrace, which faces the main road but is set back with front gardens. The houses alternate in pairs with handed plans. The front garden is grassed with a concrete paved path leading to a modern painted iron gate set in steel posts, and hedges form the boundary. A rough gravelled driveway along the end gable provides access from the street to the communal rear driveway. The rear driveway is gravelled and bounded partly by the basalt rubble and red brick gable end of an adjacent building and partly by a basalt rubble wall with rough basalt copings. An old flat iron gate mounted on the adjacent gable closes the driveway off from the street. Beyond the rear driveway stands a line of basalt rubble outhouses or garages, some with rendered side walls. The detached outbuilding for this house has metal rainwater goods, Bangor blue slate roof, a small sheeted timber door, smooth cement render to one door jamb, and a modern metal flue pipe.

Historical records show the terrace appears for the first time on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, the site being shown as empty on the 1858 map, allowing tentative dating to the 1860s. An old photograph reveals diagonal pattern quarry glazing in both sashes of both windows in the west gable of the terrace, and a 1970 survey recorded that one house retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and fanlight, suggesting all windows were originally similarly glazed. The terrace was built by the O'Neill family for workers on the Shane's Castle estate.