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

8 Shane's Terrace is a mid-Victorian terrace house of distinctive proportions built in plain style, dating to the 1860s. It forms part of a terrace of 14 houses constructed by the O'Neill family as workers' cottages for the Shane's Castle estate. The house first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, with the site recorded as empty in 1858. Though it has lost some original features—notably the lattice glazing to its front windows and fanlight—it retains considerable architectural character as part of the wider group.

The building is a single-storey house with attic, constructed of coursed hammer-dressed basalt rubble with fine recessed jointing and red brick dressings. The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. There is one small original flush rooflight to the right and an original gabled dormer to the left. The dormer roof is slated to match the main roof, with timber barge boards of fretted pattern and slate-clad cheeks. The dormer front contains a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement in all plate glass, set in a timber frame with horizontal boarding to the gable above. A ridge chimney to the left-hand extremity is shared with the adjoining house; it is of red brick with projecting brick cornice and four pots, with a television aerial attached.

The main south-west facing elevation features a projecting red brick eaves course and cast iron guttering with one downpipe shared with the adjoining house. To the left of the doorway is a rectangular timber sliding sash window, vertically hung 1 over 1 with horns and exposed sash box, set in a red brick block surround with flat arch to head and projecting painted stone cill. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 2-panel glazed door stained brown with translucent glazing, set below a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight, all in a timber surround, with modern metal knocker and letterbox. Both window and doorway have red brick block surrounds.

The rear elevation comprises a single-storey rear wall to the left with a lower rear return projecting to the right, over which the main roof sweeps down. The roof contains one small original flush rooflight. The rear wall and return walls are of roughly coursed basalt rubble with original lime mortar in places, though later cement pointing is also present. Projecting brick eaves courses run along both. The rear wall contains a modern rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent and projecting thin concrete cill, set in a brickwork block dressing. The return contains a similar window, though this has been widened to one side with plain basalt rubble to the jamb. A doorway in the side of the return contains a modern rectangular flush timber door with translacent glazed panel. Cast iron gutters serve both rear wall and return, with cast iron downpipes; a PVC soil pipe is present on the rear wall of the front block and a PVC waste pipe on the rear wall of the return. Smooth cement rendered reveals surround all rear openings. A recessed area between rear wall and return is paved in concrete. A television aerial is mounted on a timber post in the angle of the rear return.

The house stands within a terrace of 14 houses set back from the main road 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 between plain circular iron posts, and the front garden is bounded by hedges. A gravelled communal driveway runs across the rear elevation. Beyond this driveway is a line of basalt rubble outhouses or garages, some with rendered side walls. The detached garage for this house has PVC rainwater goods, Bangor blue slates, a modern flush steel up-and-over door, and modern reticulated pointing to the masonry, with a modern metal flue pipe.

Historical sources including old photographs show that the terrace originally featured diagonal pattern quarry glazing in the windows of the west gable, and a 1970 survey recorded that one house retained lattice-paned sashes to the front and fanlight, suggesting all windows were similarly glazed originally.