Kyne's Cottage, Shane's Castle Park, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4NE

Kyne's Cottage is a two-storey, three-bay house set within the grounds of a country house estate in a rural location. It dates from the 19th century and faces west onto an estate road.

The entrance elevation is symmetrical and formal. It features a gabled entrance porch with flanking curved screen walls. The porch has a central rectangular timber sheeted door surmounted by a radially glazed semi-circular fanlight within a semi-circular arched opening, with a window to its south side. On either side of the porch is a single window. The screen walls, constructed of basalt rubble with rhyolite copings, extend from the gables and curve outward to contain flat-arched doors before ramping down to square end piers. These piers are linked by decorative wrought iron railings on low basalt rubble plinths with a central pedestrian gate opposite the front entrance.

The main block has walls of smooth cement render painted white, with rusticated quoins at the extremities, a projecting plinth and eaves course. The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses, with overhangs to the gables but not to the eaves. Two rendered chimneys with plain block cornices stand on each gable, one painted white and one unpainted. Windows throughout are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung, with 8 over 8 panes with horns where specified, set in partly recessed frames with plain reveals and projecting painted stone cills. The porch is rendered to match the main block, with raised plain rendered pilaster-like strips to its corners. Its roof is slated with timber barge boards and eaves boards, and contains cast iron gutters and downpipes.

The north elevation comprises a blank gable of the main block with a later two-storey return extending to the left. The north gable is rendered and painted white with similar quoins but no plinth. The return has overhanging eaves with decorative timber barge boards containing Gothic arched arcading. Its wall is smooth cement render, lined and blocked, with quoins to the left-hand extremity and a projecting eaves course, all unpainted. Two timber sash windows, one to each floor, have projecting unpainted concrete cills.

The rear elevation presents a double-pile twin-gabled full-width two-storey return projecting from the main front block. This rear section also has overhanging eaves with decorative arcaded timber barge boards. The left gable contains a small first-floor window with Gothic arched tracery in six panes, set as a fixed light with an unpainted concrete cill, above a projecting open porch. The porch has smooth rendered walls, lined and blocked, with a lock-up chamber to its left and a tongued-and-grooved sheeted underside to its lean-to roof. The rear entrance is a rectangular timber sheeted half-door, with a 4 over 4 sashed window to its right and a sheeted door to the lock-up. A small chimney on the left rear gable is rendered with one modern red pot. The right gable contains two windows, one to each floor, with unpainted concrete cills. The rear faces of the front screen walls show basalt rubble with roughly cement-rendered splayed reveals to the recessed doors.

The south elevation comprises the south gable of the main front block with a two-storey return extending to the right. The gable is similar to the north one and contains two windows, one to each floor, together with a cast iron soil pipe. The south side of the rear return matches the north side in form, including two windows with quoins to the right-hand extremity.

The house stands set back slightly from the estate road with a small front area of grass and pavings enclosed by the flanking screen walls and front boundary railings. To the rear is a single-storey outbuilding of basalt rubble with a slated roof, linked to side boundary walls surrounding a concrete-surfaced yard. The outbuilding's south gable contains a large rectangular doorway with a pair of sheeted timber garage doors. The west elevation has three sheeted doors and two timber windows, one a 3 over 3 sash with horns and one altered to contain louvres. The north gable has a small rectangular window opening now boarded up and a sheeted door to a small chamber extending to the left. The east elevation contains a sheeted timber door and two small outshot chambers, with one accessed through a small enclosed area fronted by a rubble screen wall. Boundary walls to the yard are of roughly coursed basalt rubble with rendered copings, containing a vehicular gateway with square piers on the south side and a small pedestrian gate on the north side. Lawns front the house to the sides, flanked by hedges, and extend to the rear of the outbuilding, with mature trees beyond on all sides.