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

1 Shane's Terrace is a single-storey terrace house with attic, built in the mid-Victorian period and dated tentatively to the 1860s. It stands at the extreme left-hand end of a terrace of 14 houses that face the main road but are set back with front gardens. The house was built by the O'Neill family as workers' cottages for the Shane's Castle estate. The terrace first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, with the site shown as empty in 1858.

The house is constructed of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with fine jointing, slightly recessed, and has tooled arrises to quoins at the left-hand extremity. Red brick dressings form an eaves course that projects, and there are red brick block surrounds to the windows and doorway on the front elevation. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. One small original flush rooflight is set to the left, and an original gabled dormer stands to the right, with roof slated in matching Bangor blue, timber barge boards of fretted pattern, slatework to the cheeks, and a front containing a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement in plate glass. The gable above features horizontal boarding. A chimney sits at the right-hand extremity of the ridge, shared with the adjoining house to the right; it is constructed of red brick with a projecting brick cornice, four earthenware pots, and two television aerials.

The front elevation, facing south-west, has a projecting stone cill painted. To the right of the doorway is a window—a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns, featuring an exposed sash box and set within a red brick block surround with flat arch to the head. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 2-panel glazed door with reeded glazing and a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight, both set in a timber surround with modern aluminium handle and letterbox. Three concrete steps lead to the front door. Cast iron guttering runs along the front, although no downpipe is present.

The end gable contains two windows—one at ground floor and one at attic level—similar to the front window but with unpainted sandstone cills. The walling follows the same pattern as the entrance front, with tooled arrises to quoins at each extremity. Oversailing eaves carry sheeted soffits and decorative timber barge boards of fretted pattern. A modern steel door, closing the communal driveway to the rear, is mounted on the gable.

The rear elevation is of plain character. The blank rear wall to the right adjoins a projecting rear return to the left, with the main roof swept down over it and slated as the front elevation. Both the rear wall and return wall are rendered in wet dash with crushed stones, with slightly projecting smooth rendered plinth and projecting smooth rendered eaves course. On the rear wall, the render stops short of the right-hand extremity to reveal part of the basalt quoining. Cast iron gutters and downpipes run along the rear wall and return, with a PVC soil pipe on the rear wall of the front block and a PVC waste pipe on the rear wall of the return. One window in the return is a modern rectangular timber fixed light with side-hung casement set over a projecting concrete cill. A doorway in the side of the return contains a rectangular modern flush timber door with glazed panel of reeded glass, modern aluminium handle, and two deep concrete steps.

The house has lost some of its original interior and exterior features, most notably the lattice glazing to the front and gable windows and the original front fanlight. An old photograph shows diagonal pattern quarry glazing in both sashes of windows in the west gable of the terrace, and the first survey in 1970 recorded that one house retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and to the fanlight, suggesting that all windows were originally similarly glazed. Despite these losses, the house retains distinct proportions in an overall plain style and, together with the rest of the houses in the terrace, still forms a group of definite character.

The front garden is grassed with a small gravelled strip alongside a concrete path to the front pedestrian gateway, and a concrete path runs across the front of the house. The gateway consists of a small modern painted iron gate set in plain circular posts with wooden finials. The front garden is bounded by hedges, set behind a low basalt rubble wall to the left of the gate and along the left-hand perimeter. A rough stone driveway along the end gable provides access to the communal rear driveway, which is gravelled and bounded partly on the north side by a basalt rubble wall with rough basalt copings and cement copings. Beyond the rear driveway stands a line of basalt rubble outhouses or garages. The garage for this house is one of a semi-detached pair, featuring PVC rainwater goods, synthetic slates, and modern flush timber garage doors.