6-10 Shane's Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A group of three two-storey houses comprising two two-storey blocks linked by a single storey block.

NO 6 SHANE'S STREET.
A two-storey house of asymmetrical layout, two windows wide to the main street front, extending by a half-hexagonal end at the left to a longer side elevation which incorporates a gable breaking forward at the left-hand extremity and includes a modern flat roofed open porch. Main entrance faces south.

Hipped roofs of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; tall red brick chimney with a dry dash of white stone chippings but smooth rendered within porch area; smooth rendered plinth; PVC gutter and downpipes. Windows are rectangular PVC double glazed sliding sashes, with horns, with an arrangement of glazing resembling 6 over 6. Main entrance is a modern timber glazed screen consisting of a 6-panel door flanked by leaded sidelights surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with segmentally-arched radial glazing. The side elevation includes a modern doorway of similar character and a broad modern rectangular tripartite window of fixed lights and top-hung vents.

SETTING OF NO 6 SHANE'S STREET: The building stands on a corner site within the built-up area of the town, abutted on one side by an adjoining building. It faces the main road but is set back from behind a short lawn which extends to cover a large area to the west. Bounded to the front by a low basalt rubble wall with large sandstone copings surmounted by original spear-headed iron railings which terminate at the east in a gateway. Gateway comprises an original cast iron gate between smooth plastered panelled piers. Boundary to the west is a smooth cement rendered wall which terminates at the north in a pair of iron gates between plain square rendered piers leading to a driveway. Driveway flanked by a modern single storey garage block.

NO 8 SHANE'S STREET.
A two-storey, two-bay rendered house standing in a terrace block. Main entrance faces south.

Entrance elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; two modern rooflights; one chimney, red brick, with original tall stoneware pots; walls rendered with dry dash of crushed white stones; PVC gutter and downpipe. Two windows to first floor and one to ground floor: modern rectangular timber small-paned fixed lights with three-pane top-hung vents. Entrance is a modern timber doorscreen consisting of a glazed and panelled door set in large rectangular sidelights and fanlight of obscured glass. End gable to right is rendered and includes two attic windows: modern rectangular fixed lights with top-hung vents.

SETTING OF NO 8 SHANE'S STREET: The building stands within the built-up area of the town, set in a terrace block, facing the main road but set back from it with a garden in front. Garden bounded to front by original spear-headed iron railings and an original iron gate set between original panelled smooth plastered square piers.

NO 10 SHANE'S STREET.
A two-storey, four bay building with a single storey wing to the west. Main entrance faces south.

Entrance elevation: roofs of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; two chimneys, red brick; walls smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked; cast iron gutters and downpipes. Four windows to first floor of two-storey block: original rectangular timber sliding sashes, 2 over 2 with horns, with projecting concrete cills. Three windows to ground floor of two-storey block: later rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents; spalling to rendering over original wooden lintels to extreme right-hand window; concrete cills. Doorway set in a concave recess with coved head to opening: contains an original rectangular timber glazed and panelled timber door which includes fan-mouldings to three small panels, flanked by slim reeded timber columns rising to a thin projecting cornice; two concrete steps to doorway. Single storey wing to west contains a single window as previous to ground floor. Extending to the east is a single storey garage with rendered walls and hipped slated roof. End gable of main block is rendered as entrance front, with plain timber barge boards to overhanging eaves. Rear elevation contains modernised windows.

SETTING OF NO 10 SHANE'S STREET: The building stands within the built-up area of the town, facing the road but set back from it with a garden in front. Front garden bounded by a smooth rendered wall containing a plain iron gate set in modern steel posts; original square smooth rendered and panelled boundary pier to left-hand extremity, common with adjoining house to west. At the rear is a grassed area bordered by the single storey rear return and single storey outbuildings.

In the first survey in 1971 all the windows of all three houses were described as being "double hung with full glazing bars".

Historical information

Precise date of buildings not known but they appear on the OS map of 1858; buildings appear on the site on the OS map of 1829 but they may be predecessors. It is uncertain whether the name 'Shane's Lodge' is correctly to be applied to all or any of these three houses; it may relate to the buildings behind the street front terrace. An old photograph shows that originally there was a flat roofed porch projecting from the front of the block now comprising nos 6 and 8, and that the same portion of the façade was originally three windows wide to the first floor where it is now four windows wide; it also shows no 10 as a single storey building. No 10 was raised a storey c 1940.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1829, Co Antrim 43 (buildings appear on the site).
2. OS Map 1858, Co Antrim 43 (the name 'Shane's Lodge' appears adjacent to this block).

Secondary Sources
1. UAHS, Antrim and Ballymena (Belfast, 1969), p 27 (item no 27).
2. DOE Planning Service, Randalstown Conservation Area booklet (Ballymena, 1996), p 33 (illustrates an old photograph showing the original form of the buildings).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a group of buildings which has undergone a series of alterations and is of little special architectural or historic interest.