Sonas — Battery Road

The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey former Presbyterian/Methodist manse, built c. 1865, having iron trellis work open porch to the centre of the front façade (east) and a multiple-bay full-height two-storey extension with hipped roof to rear (west).

The saved account records: Possibly later in use as a Church of Ireland rectory

The saved account records: Shallow hipped slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves and with two rendered chimneystacks to the centre.

The saved account records: Painted wet-dashed rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth.

Sonas — Battery Road matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Although altered, this well proportioned mid nineteenth-century former Presbyterian/Methodist manse retains its early form and character. The symmetrical three-bay front elevation, the rounded door opening, the shallow hipped roof with overhanging eaves and the paired central chimneystacks are characteristic features of the typical mid-to-late nineteenth-century manse/rectory building. This former manse was probably originally associated with the Methodist church (13001044) or the now demolished Presbyterian church to the south end of Battery Road. It may have been later in use as a Church of Ireland rectory… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.