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

A single storey, three-bay terrace house or cottage of rubble basalt, one of a block of four similar cottages. Main entrance faces south. Entrance elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; dark toned ridge tiles. One chimney, to right-hand extremity, common with adjoining house to right: red brick with projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses, surmounted by a blocking course of red brick; two pots. Walls of basalt rubble with projecting brick eaves course; red brick flat arch to head and block dressings to openings but partly obscured by later cement reveals and raised surrounds; surrounds to windows are lugged; looks like original lime mortar pointing to masonry in places, but some later cement repairs. Metal gutter with metal downpipe to right-hand extremity. Elevation comprises a central doorway flanked each side by a window. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1, with horns, painted white, with exposed sash boxes painted green; projecting painted stone cills. Doorway contains a rectangular flush timber door, surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, in a moulded timber frame; modern metal letterbox and knocker; concrete doorstep. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables to left of doorway. Rear elevation: single storey; roof slated as previous; three original rectangular metal rooflights. Walling similar to entrance front except bottom portion roughly rendered with lime mortar; old lime mortar pointing to masonry generally. Metal gutter and downpipe; downpipe has cast iron lower portion with later metal pipe inserted above. Rear elevation contains a doorway with a small window to the right: brick dressings to window and upper part of doorway but with cement rendered surrounds to reveals of doorway. Window is a rectangular timber side-hung casement; projecting painted sandstone cill. Doorway contains a modern rectangular flush timber door set in a broad original timber frame; modern metal handle; cement rendered base blocks to frame each side of door. SETTING: The building stands within a terrace of four similar single cottages, the block itself forming part of a row of five similar blocks. The overall 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 rest of the area around consists of agricultural land. The rear is reached by a gravelled driveway along the gable of the adjacent house, No 17, to the west. At the rear of the house is a small gravelled area now overgrown with grass, bounded on the east by vertical timber fencing. Immediately to the north is a timber outbuilding of no special interest with a garden beyond that.