Beanstown Mission Hall, Browns Corner, 4 Pond Park Road, Lisburn, County Antrim, BT28 3QR

Beanstown Mission Hall is a detached linear range of single and two-storey rendered buildings built around 1820, set on an east-west axis at Brown's Corner in the townland of Aghalislone. The range comprises a central two-storey rendered house with a projecting entrance porch, abutted to the west by a single-storey former Mission Hall and to the east by a single-bay single-storey structure and a further single-storey former dwelling.

The two-storey central house features a pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, two redbrick chimneystacks and cast-iron guttering to timber rafter feet. It has square-headed window openings throughout with single-pane timber sash windows and masonry sills. The projecting entrance porch has a blocking course to concrete roof and a square-headed door opening with a timber glazed door bearing early twentieth-century door furniture, opening directly onto the road.

The flanking single-storey structures have corrugated asbestos sheeted roofs with plastic rainwater goods and painted cement rendered walling. The former Mission Hall has a pair of square-headed door openings with sheeted timber doors, whilst the east range features a lean-to projecting entrance porch with a hardwood glazed door. Window openings to the former hall are in uPVC, and openings to the east range are blocked up.

The building range sits on a rectangular plan facing south onto Pond Park Road, with the eastern gable of the east range fronting onto the B101 at the junction known as Brown's Corner, where it serves as a local landmark on this prominent road intersection.

The range first appears on the 1832-33 Ordnance Survey map as a lengthy oblong building at Brown's Corner. It was not recorded in the Townland Valuation of the 1830s, indicating a value of less than £3, but by Griffiths Valuation of 1861 the central house was occupied by Thomas Fleming, who leased the property from the Marquis of Hertford, valued at £2 15 shillings. The property remained at this valuation until 1929. In 1884 the house passed to James Brown, a local farmer, who occupied it with his wife Eliza. The 1901 census return indicates the house originally possessed a thatched roof and contained between two and three inhabited rooms, with the rear outbuilding housing a cow house, dairy and barn. Field inspection suggests the central house was originally a single-storey vernacular building that was raised a level sometime after 1901.

The single-storey building abutting the west gable has served as a meeting place for members of a local Gospel mission since 1920. From the early 1900s, a small congregation had met in the living room of Ivy Hill Cottage, home of William Orr, originally a Presbyterian who organised the first meetings. When Orr later moved to Beanstown, his farm proved too small to accommodate the growing congregation. Permission was granted to use one room of the single-storey building at Brown's Corner, then operating as a loom weaving shop, for Sunday meetings. A Gospel Mission was first held here in 1921-22, leading to increased numbers. As the congregation expanded, the dividing wall between two rooms was removed to create one large hall. A further mission led by the Faith Mission Pilgrims was held in October 1923, revitalising the congregation who established a Prayer Union that year. The congregation continued to meet at this location until the final service on 27 July 2008, after which the hall closed. At the time of the survey, the building was scheduled for demolition as part of an extensive road reconstruction, though this had not been carried out. The two-storey house and the building abutting its east gable have been unoccupied for some time and have fallen into disrepair.