Donegall Chambers, 11-15 Donegall Place, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 5AB

Donegall Chambers is a four-storey rendered building with attic, designed in 1932 by Belfast architect Kendrick Edwards and completed in 1933. Located on the west side of Donegall Place at the corner with Fountain Lane, it replaces two earlier three-storey buildings that occupied the site.

The building combines Art Deco and Classical architectural styles, though the integration is uneven. The main east elevation features a central tower with a slightly pitched roof and gable facing Donegall Place. The attic floor is set back on either side but projects forward on the south corner. Giant pilasters frame the building, with a moulded cornice running below the parapet. A full-height arched window in the central tower has an exaggerated keystone. Above this are three windows to each floor to the south (the central window having six panes, flanked by four-paned lights), and two four-paned windows to each floor to the north. The first, second and third floor windows have flat lintels, moulded architraves and aproned cills. The attic windows are flat-lintelled.

The south elevation steps down from five to four storeys. It is nine windows wide overall, with giant pilasters and cornice framing a lined render section four storeys high and two windows wide, matching the east elevation treatment. The remainder is pebble-dashed render with raised concrete architraves. The ground floor has painted concrete panelling with ribbed sections. At the west end, a concrete canopy is surmounted by concrete fins and vertical glass block windows and grills, with two doorways below.

Modern shop fronts extend across the full ground floor width. Windows are predominantly timber casements, though many have been replaced with uPVC, particularly south of the tower. The central stair tower window is metal-framed, as are those to the side elevation. The rear west elevation is abutted by a two-storey building; above this the pebble-dashed wall is blank, surmounted by a flat-roofed tower. Cast iron rainwater pipes are present throughout.

Originally built as three ground-floor retail units with three storeys of office space above, the building was occupied at completion by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company and Saxone Shoe Company. The architect Kendrick Edwards (1874–1943), born in Liverpool, had established an independent practice in Belfast in 1907. The builder was Thomas McKee. At the first general revaluation of Northern Ireland property in 1935, Donegall Chambers had a rateable value of £3,432 15 shillings. By 1943, the ground floor units were occupied by Saxone Shoe Company and the LMS Railway Company, while upper floors housed a dressmaker, house furnisher, accountancy firm and medical practice. The second revaluation (1956–1972) valued the building at £4,956. Thomas Cook & Son and Saxone Shoes occupied the ground floor units from at least the 1950s until 1989.

The building has been significantly compromised by loss of historic fabric and detailing, including alterations to the original floor plan. It is not considered among the best examples of the type and does not meet the statutory and policy tests as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The building was delisted on 21 August 2015. It currently serves as commercial space and is situated within a conservation area.