20, 21 and 21a, East Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Terraced houses and shops.

20, 21 and 21a, East Street

WRENN ID
weathered-postern-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1999
Type
Terraced houses and shops
Address
20, 21 and 21a, East Street, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 311 040
Coordinates
50.82072, -0.13942
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

20, 21, and 21A East Street are terraced houses and shops built in the early 19th century. The exterior is finished in stucco and features a roof that is obscured by a parapet. The building has four storeys above a basement and a nine-window range that wraps around the corner from East Street to Bartholomews, following the shape of the triangular site.

The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front with entrances located near the corner and close to the party wall on Bartholomews. All openings have flat arches, and the windows feature projecting sills. On the first floor, there is a Tuscan pilastrade consisting of nine bays, with the middle bay, No. 5, positioned at the corner. Each bay contains a window, with the first, second, eighth, and ninth ranges featuring 2 x 2 sash windows typical of early to mid-19th century design. The fourth to sixth window ranges are almost entirely occupied by shop windows.

The upper floors retain many original sash windows, with 6 x 6 windows on the second floor and 3 x 3 windows on the third or attic floor. The sashes in the fourth and sixth window ranges are curved to match the front wall of the building. There are camber-arched basement windows on either side of the shop entrance, also featuring 6 x 6 sliding sashes of original design. Some first-floor windows in the third and seventh ranges are blocked, as are the second-floor windows in the third and fifth ranges. A storey band runs between the second and third floors, topped by an entablature with a projecting cornice and parapet. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

20, 21 and 21a, East Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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