7 Belfast Road, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5EN

7 Belfast Road, Comber, is a substantial two-storey gabled house situated on the east side of the south end of Belfast Road, at the north end of a terrace. The building may have pre-1834 origins, but its façade was probably remodelled in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The front (west) façade is the principal elevation. Slightly left of centre is a fairly large recessed doorway with a moulded archivolt, keystone, and panelled pilasters with decorative capitals. Within the recess is a recent panelled door with sidelights and fanlight. To the left of the entrance is a pair of windows with moulded surrounds and PVC frames, almost treated as a single composition. To the right of the doorway is another similar pair of windows, and at the far right is an elliptical carriage entrance with timber sheeted double doors. The first floor has six unevenly spaced windows with PVC frames. The façade is finished in painted lined render with in-and-out quoins and a chamfered base. The north gable is blank and finished in painted lined render.

The rear façade has a recent single-storey lean-to extension covering the ground floor (up to the rear of the carriage arch), fitted with modern windows and door. At first-floor level are four windows, mostly with PVC frames; the third window is smaller with what appears to be a late Victorian frame featuring a segmental head, margin panes, and coloured glass. The upper section of the rear façade is finished in roughcast. The roof is gabled, with asbestos-free slates to the front and asbestos slates to the rear. Two rendered chimney stacks and PVC rainwater goods are present. To the rear stands a rubble-built two-storey outbuilding.

To the right of the front façade, immediately left of the carriage arch, stands what appears to be a milestone. It is round-headed and painted. Its front face is badly worn, but the words "From" and possibly "Belfast" appear to have been inscribed upon it.

Documentary evidence shows a building on this site in the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. Valuation records from the same year record a house belonging to S. Jamison, which was part two-storey and part single-storey. The irregular arrangement of the present front façade and its enlarged and regularised openings suggest the current house represents a late 19th or early 20th-century remodelling of an older dwelling, possibly pre-dating 1834. The presence of what appears to be an early 19th-century or earlier milestone close to the façade supports the likelihood that a building stood on this site during the early 1800s or before.