2 Parade Ground, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AA

Two Parade Ground is a two-storey, two-bay house forming part of a terrace of seven houses in Randalstown. The building is grade B2 listed.

The main entrance is located in a projecting porch on the east elevation. The east-facing main block contains two windows, one to each floor, positioned to the right of the single-storey gabled porch. The roof is finished in Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses. A chimney sits at the right-hand extremity, shared with the adjoining property, constructed of squared sandstone in regular courses with a plain projecting block cornice and four pots—three of these are original octagonal stoneware and one is modern. The walls are smooth rendered and painted white, with a projecting eaves course on the frieze and a black-painted base to resemble a plinth. A satellite dish is attached high up on the wall. Metal guttering with a cast iron downpipe runs along the elevation.

The windows on the main block are rectangular timber sliding sash windows, 2 over 4 with horns, set in exposed painted white sash boxes. They have projecting stone cills painted black. The porch roof is slated to match the main roof, with overhanging eaves showing exposed rafter feet. Decorative timber barge boards to the gable are ornamented with scrolling fretwork. The porch has cast iron guttering and downpipe. The rendered walls feature raised quoins at the outer corners of the porch, painted black. The front wall of the porch contains a window, one of a pair with the adjoining house—a rectangular timber sliding sash of 1 over 2 with horns in a partly recessed frame with a projecting stone cill. The side wall of the porch, facing north, contains the main entrance: a rectangular timber glazed and panelled door in plain reveals, with a painted concrete step.

The rear elevation is two-storey with slated roof and rendered walls matching the front. Cast iron guttering runs along this elevation, with a PVC soil pipe. Two windows occupy the first floor: on the left is a rectangular timber sliding sash, 4 over 8 with horns, set in exposed painted white sash boxes in plain reveals painted black, with a projecting concrete cill also painted black. The window to the right is narrower, a timber sashed 2 over 4 with horns, set in exposed sash boxes and coupled with a window of the adjoining house within a recessed common opening. The ground floor contains two similar windows and a central doorway with a modern rectangular flush timber glazed door in plain reveals. A small single-storey corrugated perspex lean-to porch encloses the doorway and left window, appearing damaged, with a boarded timber door. To the left of this porch stands a small single-storey outbuilding of concrete blockwork with a lean-to corrugated perspex roof.

The building stands within the built-up town area, located in a terrace of seven houses facing the river but set well back from it. An extensive hardstanding in front is surfaced partly in tarmac. The front boundary to the hardstanding is formed by a low rendered retaining wall to the riverbank with a large metal pipe across it on concrete supports, viewed through a screen of mature trees. The front open area is bounded to the north by a basalt retaining wall surmounted by original iron railings, retaining the end of the elevated main street. To the south, a tall railway viaduct, now defunct, built of snecked basalt rubble, bounds the open area. At the rear is an open yard or compound common to all houses in the terrace, mostly hard-surfaced. Single-storey basalt rubble garages or sheds with slated roofs form the west boundary to the rear area.