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

4 Shane's Terrace is a mid-Victorian terrace house built of basalt with brick dressings, dating to the 1860s. It stands as part of a distinctive group of 14 workers' cottages constructed by the O'Neill family for the Shane's Castle estate. The house first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, though the site was empty in 1858. Despite the loss of original lattice glazing to its front windows and fanlight—features that historical photographs and a 1970 survey confirm were present throughout the terrace—the building retains considerable character through its proportions and architectural detail.

The house is a single-storey structure with an attic. The main elevation, facing south-west, is built of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with recessed jointing in parts, though more crudely applied elsewhere. A projecting red brick eaves course runs across the front. The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. One small original flush rooflight sits to the right; to the left is an original gabled dormer with slated roof, fretted timber barge boards, slated cheeks, and a front elevation containing a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement in plate glass set within a timber frame with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A chimney sits at the left-hand extremity of the ridge, built of red brick with projecting brick cornice, four pots, and two television aerials. Cast iron guttering runs around the front, though no downpipe is present; creeper now covers much of the front wall and guttering.

The front elevation contains two main features: one window to the left of the doorway. Both are 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 panes and horns, with exposed sash box and projecting painted stone cill. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 2-panel glazed door stained brown with reeded glazing, set below a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight in a timber surround. Modern metal handle and letterbox are fitted; concrete flagged steps lead to the door. A front garden is grassed with a concrete flagged path to a small modern painted iron gate set in plain square steel posts; hedges bound the garden.

The rear elevation is two-storey, with the original rear wall and rear return built up beyond their original height. Bangor blue slates cover the rear roof above a later extension; the extension has a flat roof. Walls are rendered with wet dash of crushed black stones over a smooth rendered plinth, with timber fascia to projecting eaves. PVC gutters, downpipes, and soil pipes are fitted. Modern rectangular timber windows—fixed lights with side-hung casements or top-hung vents—have thin projecting concrete cills. A timber-constructed rear porch stands in the angle between the rear wall and return, with horizontal boarding to cill height, plain timber mullions, a lean-to glazed roof, PVC rainwater goods, and a glazed door. The rear door in the side of the rear return is modern rectangular flush timber with a glazed panel.

Across the rear elevation runs a gravelled communal driveway. Beyond it stands a line of basalt rubble outhouses and garages, some with rendered side walls. The detached garage for this house has PVC rainwater goods and Bangor blue slates with modern flush timber doors.

The houses in the terrace alternate in pairs with handed plans. The terrace faces the main road but is set back from it with front gardens. Historical records indicate that the original windows throughout the terrace featured diagonal pattern quarry glazing, particularly visible in an old photograph showing the west gable, and a 1970 survey recorded that at least one house retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and fanlight, confirming the uniform original glazing scheme has since been lost.