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

2 Shane's Terrace is a mid-Victorian terrace house of distinctly proportioned but plain design, built in the 1860s as one of a series of fourteen workers' cottages constructed by the O'Neill family on the Shane's Castle estate. The terrace first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, with the site recorded as empty in 1858. Although the house has lost some of its original features—notably the lattice glazing that originally filled its front windows and fanlight—it retains sufficient character to contribute meaningfully to the group value of the terrace as a whole.

The building is a single-storey structure with an attic, constructed of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with fine recessed jointing, dressed with red brick. The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. The front elevation, which faces south-west, contains one window to the left of the doorway, both set within red brick block surrounds with flat arches to the head. The window is a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung 1 over 1 with horns and an exposed sash box, with a projecting stone cill painted. The entrance doorway contains a modern rectangular 2-panel timber door painted white, with the top panel glazed in translucent glass, beneath a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight in a timber surround. Two concrete steps lead to the front door, which has a modern aluminium letterbox. A projecting red brick eaves course runs across the front.

The roof features one small original flush rooflight to the right and an original gabled dormer to the left. The dormer roof is slated to match the main roof, with timber barge boards of fretted pattern and slated cheeks. The dormer front contains a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement, both of plate glass in a timber frame, with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A chimney rises at the left-hand extremity of the ridge, constructed in red brick with a projecting brick cornice and four earthenware pots; two television aerials are attached. Cast iron guttering is present but without downpipes.

The rear elevation is of plain character. The rear wall, to the left, has a projecting rear return to the right, with the main roof swept down over it and slated to match the front. An original flush rooflight sits to the left. The rear wall and return wall are rendered with wet dash over a smooth rendered plinth. Cast iron gutters serve the rear wall and return. A later porch has been built in the angle between the rear wall and return, constructed in similar rendered walling with a low-pitched lean-to roof of corrugated perspex, dark-stained timber fascia boards, and crude PVC guttering and downpipe arrangement. The rear door is modern rectangular flush timber with a glazed panel; a rectangular window to its side, of dark-stained timber, comprises a fixed light with top-hung vent. Within the porch is a rear door to the return—a rectangular timber panelled and glazed door—and a window in the rear wall, which is a rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent. The rear return contains a rectangular timber fixed light with a top-hung casement to the right. The recessed area between rear wall and return is finished in concrete.

An old photograph shows that windows in the west gable of the terrace originally featured diagonal pattern quarry glazing in both sashes. The first survey in 1970 recorded that one house in the terrace retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and fanlight, indicating that all windows were originally similarly glazed.

The house stands within a terrace of fourteen cottages set back from the main road, with gardens in front. The houses alternate in pairs with handed plans. The front garden is grassed with a concrete path to the front pedestrian gateway and across the front of the house. The gateway comprises a small modern painted iron gate set in plain square iron posts. The front garden is bounded by hedges. Behind the house is a gravelled communal driveway; beyond it runs a line of basalt rubble outhouses or garages, some with rendering to side walls. The garage for this house is one of a semi-detached pair, finished with PVC rainwater goods and synthetic slates, with modern flush timber garage doors and a modern metal flue pipe.