9 Edenduff Terrace, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4NF

9 Edenduff Terrace is a mid-Victorian terrace cottage of distinctly proportioned character, dating from approximately the 1860s. Built by the O'Neill family as worker housing for the Shane's Castle estate, it formed part of an original row of four similar cottages, itself one of five such blocks comprising the entire terrace. The row first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1902. Despite the loss of some original features, notably the lattice glazing to the front windows, the building retains sufficient character to contribute meaningfully to the group value of the terrace, which enjoys a pleasant rural setting fronting the main road.

The building is a single-storey, three-bay cottage constructed of rubble basalt with roughly squared quoins to the left-hand gable extremity. The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark-toned ridge tiles. One chimney rises from the left-hand gable, constructed in rustic brick as a rebuilding of the original red brick, featuring a projecting blue-black brick cornice of three courses surmounted by a blocking course of red brick, and topped with one pot.

The entrance elevation faces south. Walls are basalt rubble with a projecting brick eaves course and red brick flat arches to window and door heads, though the doorway dressings are partly obscured by later cement render. Old lime mortar pointing exists to the masonry, with some later cement repairs evident. Metal guttering and a downpipe with cast iron pipe base sit at the left-hand extremity.

The entrance elevation comprises a central doorway flanked by windows on either side. The windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, 1 over 1 with horns, painted white with exposed sash boxes painted green and projecting painted stone cills. The windows have lost their original lattice glazing. The doorway contains a rectangular sheeted timber door surmounted by a rectangular fanlight of obscured glass, all set in a broad moulded timber frame with modern metal letterbox and handle and painted stone base blocks. Black PVC vertical trunking for cables stands to the right of the doorway.

The west elevation is a blank gable of basalt rubble largely obscured by rough lime mortar, with smooth rendered strips running from the eaves to the base of the chimney. The verges are essentially flush to the roof slates, which slightly overhang, with timber kneelers.

The rear elevation is single-storey with slating matching the front. Three original rectangular metal rooflights pierce the roof. The walling is similar to the entrance front except the bottom portion is roughly rendered in lime mortar and the section below the window is in brickwork, with old lime mortar pointing generally evident to the masonry. Metal guttering and downpipe are present. The rear elevation contains a doorway with a small window to its left. Brick dressings frame both openings, though the doorway reveals are obscured by cement render. The window is a rectangular timber fixed light in an old moulded timber frame with a recessed cill and rotting timber cill superimposed above it. The doorway contains a rectangular timber sheeted door in a broad original moulded frame with modern metal handle and painted stone base blocks flanking the frame.

The building stands at one end of its original terrace block, facing the main road but set back slightly with a tarmac access road immediately in front, separated from the main road by kerbstones. To the rear lies the heavily wooded demesne of Shane's Castle, bounded by a basalt rubble wall. The surrounding area comprises agricultural land. A gravelled driveway runs along the gable between this property and the adjacent block to the east, leading to a small gravelled area at the rear with a garden beyond bounded by hedges.