7 Malone Place, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT12 5FD

A small two-storey terrace house built circa 1843–49, with a two-storey rear return, located on the north side of Malone Place in Belfast. The building is one of seven houses that form the main body of the terrace and represents one of the few surviving pre-1850s dwellings in central Belfast.

The south-facing front elevation is asymmetrical. Originally featuring two plain sash windows to the first floor, these retain their sills sitting directly above ground level. The first floor is rendered and painted. Following substantial alteration in 1897, a large shop front was inserted at ground floor level, comprising a recessed glazed doorway to the left and a large two-light shop window to the right, with a plain stall-riser and signboard frieze topped by a simple box cornice. This shop front dominated the ground floor until 2004.

In 2004, the building was extensively altered and returned to residential use. The shop front was removed and replaced with an entrance door and window matching the adjacent No. 5, both set in fair-faced brick to match the rest of the terrace. The two original first-floor window openings are retained.

The rear of the property comprises a two-storey return with three modern timber-framed windows at first-floor level on the east face. A slated gabled roof with a brick chimneystack to the east carries four matching pots. PVC rainwater goods are fitted to the front.

The building has significant group value, forming part of the Malone Place terrace alongside Nos. 1–5, much of which also dates to the 1840s. The site occupies what was originally the eastern end of Blackstaff Lane, a country route running between the Falls Road and the Dublin road (later Bradbury Place and University Road). By 1832, the area remained largely rural; the terrace including No. 7 is first recorded in 1849. The building was likely built by James Warnock, a pawnbroker and owner of Malone Cottage, with Sarah Warnock listed as freeholder in 1860. The property remained in the Warnock family until 1894, when William Rosbotham acquired it and converted it to a shop the following year. It functioned as a shop—most recently as a shoe repairer's—until the 1970s, subsequently serving as a furniture store until its conversion back to residential use in 2004.