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

5 Shane's Terrace, Shane's Street, Randalstown, is a mid-Victorian terrace house of the 1860s, built by the O'Neill family as worker housing for the Shane's Castle estate. It is a single-storey house with an attic, constructed of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with red brick dressings. The building is Grade B2 listed and sits within Randalstown Conservation Area.

The house has a distinctive proportioned plain style, though it has lost some original features. The main entrance faces south-west. The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. There is one small original flush rooflight to the left and an original gabled dormer to the right. The dormer roof is slated to match the main roof, with timber barge boards of fretted pattern. The dormer cheeks are also slated, and the front contains a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement, all plate glass, set in a timber frame with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A chimney sits on the ridge at the right-hand extremity, shared with the adjoining house. It is constructed of red brick with a projecting brick cornice, four pots, and two television aerials; the front face has crudely executed pointing. The wall jointing has been crudely applied and slightly smeared over the masonry in places. There is a projecting red brick eaves course. Cast iron guttering and one cast iron downpipe are present.

The front elevation contains one window to the right of the doorway. Both the window and doorway are set in red brick block surrounds with flat arches to their heads. The window is a rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 1 over 1 with horns and an exposed sash box, with a projecting painted stone cill. Originally, this window had lattice glazing, as confirmed by old photographs showing diagonal pattern quarry glazing. The doorway contains a rectangular timber sheeted door below a plain glazed rectangular fanlight, all in a timber surround. The door has a modern metal doorknob and letterbox, with one concrete step to the front. The fanlight was originally glazed with lattice panes.

The rear elevation is two-storey, with the original rear wall and rear return built up beyond its original height. The rear roof is Bangor blue slates above the later extension, with a flat roof to the extension itself. Walls are rendered with a wet dash of crushed black stones. The eaves have a timber fascia. PVC gutters, downpipes, and soil pipes have been added. Modern rectangular timber windows are present, consisting of fixed lights with top-hung vents, all double glazed, with thin projecting concrete cills. The rear door in the side of the return is a modern rectangular flush timber door with a glazed panel. A recessed area between the rear wall and return is concrete.

The house stands within a terrace of 14 houses that faces the main road but is set back from it with front gardens. The houses alternate in pairs with handed plans. The front garden is grassed with a concrete path to the front pedestrian gateway and across the front of the house. The gateway consists of a small modern painted iron gate set in modern rustic brick square piers with concrete caps. The front garden is bounded by hedges. A gravelled communal driveway runs across the rear elevation. Beyond the rear driveway is a line of basalt rubble outhouses or garages, some with rendering to side walls. The house has a detached garage with PVC rainwater goods, asphalt roof to one portion and Bangor blue slates to the other, modern sheeted timber garage doors, and a modern metal flue pipe.

The terrace does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1858 but first appears on the 1903 map. It may tentatively be dated to the 1860s. Historical records show that the original windows throughout the terrace had diagonal pattern quarry glazing, and a survey in 1970 recorded that one house retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and fanlight. Despite the loss of these original interior and exterior features, the house, together with the rest of the terrace, still forms a group of definite character.