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

11 Shane's Terrace is a mid-Victorian terrace house of distinctly proportioned but plain style, built in the 1860s as part of a row of 14 worker cottages for the Shane's Castle estate, erected by the O'Neill family. The house first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, the site having been shown as empty in 1858. Although it has lost significant original interior and exterior features—notably the lattice glazing that originally filled its front windows and fanlight—it retains definite architectural character as part of the wider terrace group.

The building is a single-storey house with attic, constructed of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with red brick dressings. The main entrance faces south-west. The roof is finished in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. One small original flush rooflight sits to the left, while to the right is an original gabled dormer. The dormer roof is slated to match, 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 plate glass and set in a timber frame with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A chimney stands at the right-hand extremity of the roof ridge, shared with the adjoining house, constructed of red brick with a projecting brick cornice and three earthenware pots, with two television aerials attached. Three courses of modern red brick form a rebuilt blocking course, larger in width and depth than the original. The basalt rubble wall is of coursed hammer-dressed stone with jointing slightly recessed in places, though crudely applied in others. A projecting red brick eaves course runs across the front elevation.

The front elevation contains one window to the right of the doorway, both set in red brick block surrounds with flat arches to the head. The window is a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung with 1 over 1 lights and horns, showing an exposed sash box. A projecting unpainted sandstone cill runs beneath. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 2-panel glazed door painted white with translucent glazing, set below a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight, both in a timber surround with modern aluminium handle and letterbox. Cast iron guttering runs along the front with no downpipes.

The rear elevation comprises a single-storey rear wall to the right with a lower rear return projecting to the left, the main roof sweeping down over it and finished in slates as the front, with one small original flush rooflight. The rear wall is of roughly coursed basalt rubble with original lime mortar visible in places, though later cement pointing has also been applied. A projecting red brick eaves course is present. Brickwork block dressings surround the rear window. The walls of the return are rendered with wet dash of crushed black stones. Cast iron gutters run along the rear wall and return, with cast iron downpipes; PVC soil and waste pipes also serve the rear. The window in the rear wall is a rectangular timber sliding sash with 1 over 1 lights and horns, with exposed sash boxes, cement-rendered reveals, and a projecting concrete cill. The window in the return is a rectangular timber fixed light with side-hung casement and thin projecting concrete cill. A doorway in the side of the return contains a modern rectangular flush timber door with glazed panel of translucent glass. Between the rear wall and return lies a recessed concrete area.

Historical evidence suggests the original windows were fitted with diagonal pattern quarry glazing in both sashes, as shown in an old photograph of the terrace's west gable. A survey in 1970 found that one house in the terrace retained lattice-paned sashes to both the front and fanlight, indicating that all windows were similarly glazed when first built.

The house stands in a terrace set back from the main road with gardens in front. The front garden is grassed with a small concrete path leading to a modern painted iron gate set in plain square steel posts. The garden is bounded by hedges. A gravelled communal driveway runs across the rear, beyond which stands a line of basalt rubble outhouses and garages, some rendered on the side walls. The detached garage for this house has PVC rainwater goods, synthetic slates, modern flush timber doors, brickwork used for dressings, and a partly rebuilt top wall in artificial stone.