Nos. 1-7 and attached walls and piers including lamp brackets to nos. 2 and 6a, Kemp Town Place, including nos. 2 and 3 Rock Grove

A mews of two ranges of buildings constructed between 1824 and 1828, located on the north side of Kemp Town Place in Brighton, extending to include numbers 2 and 3 Rock Grove. The listed entry covers numbers 1 to 7 Kemp Town Place and the attached walls and piers, including lamp brackets to numbers 2 and 6A.

The buildings were designed as a unified group with numbers 8 to 14 Kemp Town Place (which are separately listed). The two ranges are planned as straight parallel lines, though the east end bends slightly to the south. Despite an irregular arrangement of individual elements, the whole composition achieves a unified appearance through consistent scale, with each unit having two storeys and party walls expressed above the roof line, together with similar materials and architectural features.

The construction uses cobbles with brick dressings and lacing courses, with some stucco facing. The roofs are slate throughout, though the roof to number 2 has been treated with a turnerised finish.

Individual units are characterized as follows:

Number 1 comprises a five-window range with a flat-arched entrance of 20th-century date set within a two-storey camber-arched recess. The first-floor sashes in this range have been restored to their original 3x3 design, which appears to have been a common pattern across the group. To either side of the entrance range on both floors are segmental-arched openings, and on the ground floor of the first-window range is a stables door, now converted to a garage, with a segmental-arched window above.

Number 2 is similar to number 1, except the entrance range is not recessed and the ground floor is stuccoed over. To either side of its 20th-century entrance are flat-arched windows with 4x4 sashes of early 19th-century design. The first floor has casement windows, and the ground floor contains stable doors of late 19th or early 20th-century date.

Number 4A, formerly number 3, is constructed of unpainted cobbles with a two-window range. All openings have flat arches, and the ground floor has been much altered. The first-floor windows are paired within a continuous brick surround, a treatment repeated elsewhere in the group.

Number 4 has a six-window range with a flat-arched entrance in the centre. The first-floor windows are paired, each couple with a common brick surround, though the spacing is irregular.

Number 4B has a two-window range. Its entrance is set within a round-arched recess with sidelights. To the right is a pair of flat-arched windows. One first-floor window at the left wall is shared with number 4 and sits within a common brick surround with windows to the right.

Number 5 contains a three-window range with a flat-arched entrance set in a recess, the whole much altered in the 20th century. The first floor retains remnants of original sashes, though these are now set in 20th-century surrounds. To either side of the entrance is a round-arched window, and to the left is a former stable, now converted to a garage. On the first floor, flanking the entrance axis on either side, is a segmental-arched window.

Numbers 6A and 6B share a five-window range between them. The ground floors of each have been covered in stucco, with the patterns of the original brick dressing picked out in white paint. There are two flat-arched entrances, with two windows to the left of each, one of which is tripartite. The first floor retains some sashes of original design: in the first, third and fourth window ranges these measure 8x8, in the second 6x6, and the tall window in the fifth range has transoms of 4 panes. These are the only units in the row to have parapets. Numbers 6A, 6B and 7 have projecting sills to their windows.

Number 7 has a three-window range with a centrally positioned entrance.

The elevations of numbers 2 and 3 Rock Grove follow the bend in the east end of the range. Taken together, their elevation comprises a four-window range built of unpainted cobbles. The ground floor has flat-arched windows and the first floor has camber-arched windows. All windows except a blocked opening in the fourth-window range have projecting sills. An opening in the third-window range on the ground floor was formerly an entrance but is now blocked. The entrance to number 3 Rock Grove is set within a stucco-faced elevation to Rock Grove. This listing applies to units numbered 2 and 3 Rock Grove.

Piers flanking the entrances at either end of the mews were once spanned by archways.

The interior has not been inspected.