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

3 Shane's Terrace is a single-storey mid-Victorian terrace house with attic, built in the 1860s as part of a worker's terrace on the Shane's Castle estate. The house was constructed by the O'Neill family and first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903, though the same site was shown as empty in 1858.

The building is 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 left and an original gabled dormer to the right with fretted timber bargeboards. The dormer roof is slated to match the main roof, with the front containing a rectangular timber fixed light with a side-hung casement in plate glass. A shared chimney with the adjoining house stands at the right-hand extremity of the ridge, built in red brick with a projecting brick cornice and four pots, with two television aerials attached. Cast iron guttering runs around the front elevation with one cast iron downpipe.

The main entrance faces south-west. The front elevation contains a 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 1 over 1 with horns and exposed sash box, with a projecting painted stone cill. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber two-panel glazed door painted white with translucent glazing beneath a similarly glazed rectangular fanlight, accessed by two concrete steps. A modern metal letterbox is fitted below.

Originally, the house was fitted with lattice-glazed sashes and a lattice-paned fanlight, as recorded in historical photographs and confirmed by a 1970 survey when one house in the terrace still retained these features. However, the front windows and fanlight have since been replaced with plain glazing, along with other original interior and exterior features.

The rear elevation is two-storey, comprising the original rear wall and a later rear return built up beyond the original height. The rear is rendered with wet dash of crushed black stones over a smooth rendered plinth. A later extension has a flat roof with Bangor blue slates to the main rear roof. A timber fascia runs along the projecting eaves with PVC gutters and downpipe. Modern rectangular timber windows with fixed lights and side-hung casements or top-hung vents are fitted throughout, with thin projecting concrete cills. A modern rectangular flush timber rear door with glazed panel is set in the side of the return. The recessed area between rear wall and return is paved in concrete. PVC soil pipes serve the building.

A projecting red brick eaves course runs along the front elevation.

The house stands in a terrace of 14 houses facing the main road but 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 iron gate set in plain steel posts and is bounded by hedges. A gravelled communal driveway runs across the rear of the terrace, beyond which stands a line of basalt rubble outhouses and garages, some with rendered side walls. The detached garage for this house has PVC rainwater goods, Bangor blue slates, modern flush timber doors, and a modern metal flue pipe. Despite the loss of original interior and exterior features, the house retains distinct proportions and character, and together with the rest of the terrace contributes significantly to the group value of the ensemble.