17 Edenduff Terrace, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4NF

17 Edenduff Terrace is a mid-Victorian terrace cottage of the 1860s, built by the O'Neill family as worker housing for the Shane's Castle estate. It is a single-storey, three-bay cottage constructed of rubble basalt, forming one of four similar cottages within a larger terrace block, which itself is part of a row of five such blocks. Despite the loss of original lattice glazing to the front windows, the building retains distinct proportions and character, and the terrace as a whole remains a group of definite character set in a pleasant rural setting.

The main entrance elevation faces south, covered with a roof of Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. A single chimney rises from the left-hand gable in red brick, topped with a projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses and a blocking course of red brick, surmounted by two pots. The walls are of roughly squared basalt rubble with squared quoins at the left-hand extremity, projecting brick eaves course, and red brick flat arches to window heads with block dressings to openings, partly obscured by later cement reveals, raised surrounds and paintwork. The lime mortar pointing to the masonry appears original in places, though later cement repairs are evident. A cast iron gutter runs along the eaves, though no downpipe is present.

The entrance elevation comprises a central doorway flanked by windows on each side. The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash with one over one panes and horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes painted green and projecting stone cills. The sash boxes are in poor condition with evidence of later repairs to their bases. The doorway contains a rectangular timber panelled door with a radially glazed fanlight overlaid by the original rectangular fanlight of obscured glass in a timber frame. Modern metal letterbox, painted stone base blocks to the frame, raised cement surrounds and a concrete doorstep complete the entrance. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables sits to the right of the doorway.

The west elevation is a blank gable of basalt rubble with roughly smeared cement pointing and a flush red brick chimney breast to the upper portion. Overhanging eaves feature painted panelled soffits with moulded timber barge boards.

The rear elevation is single-storey with roof slating as the front, and contains three original rectangular metal rooflights. The walling is similar to the entrance front except for the bottom portion, which is roughly rendered with lime mortar; old lime mortar pointing is generally evident to the masonry. Metal gutter and downpipe run along this elevation. The rear elevation contains a doorway with a small window to its left. The doorway has brick dressings with cement rendered reveals and paintwork to heads, and contains a rectangular timber 6-panel door, raised and fielded, set in broad timber framing with projecting stone or rendered bases and a concrete doorstep. The window is a rectangular timber side-hung casement set in a timber frame with projecting painted stone cill, with brick dressings and cement rendered reveals with paintwork to heads.

The building stands at one end of a terrace of four similar single cottages, forming part of a row of five similar blocks. 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 along the gable, between it and the adjacent western block, leads to a small gravelled area at the rear. Immediately to the north is a timber garage or outbuilding of no special interest with garden beyond.

The terrace does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map before 1902, and may be tentatively dated to the 1860s. It would appear that all houses in the terrace blocks originally had lattice paned windows to the front.