20, 21 AND 23, CHURCH STREET (See details for further address information)

20, 21, and 23 Church Street, along with 27 King Street, are terraced houses that may date from the 17th or 18th century, with later alterations. The buildings feature cobbles and stucco, with a roof covered in 20th-century tiles for Nos. 20 Church Street and 27 King Street, while Nos. 21 and 23 have earlier tiles.

The exterior consists of two storeys with dormers. No. 20 has one window facing Church Street and one window plus a loft door on King Street. It is rendered with a corner entrance and likely has a 20th-century shop front on the ground floor, with both windows beneath a small lean-to roof. The upper windows are flat-arched, and the loft door has a segmental arch. The gable facing Church Street is half-timbered, dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, and there are gabled and tile-hung dormers on the roof, along with a stuccoed ridge stack.

No. 21 features a stuccoed panelled ground floor with a flat-arched entrance and shop window beneath a fascia. The first floor is cobbled with brick dressings, segmental-arched windows with brick quoins, all now painted, and has two dormers in the roof along with a ridge stack.

No. 23 is entirely stuccoed, with a panelled ground floor and shop windows beneath a fascia. The first-floor window is segmental-arched, and there is a side stack.

No. 27 King Street is faced with cobbles and has what may be an early 19th-century shop front featuring a flat-arched entrance and a window with three panes by five panes, flanked by pilasters. It also has a segmental-arched window on the first floor and one gabled dormer in the roof.

The presence of stop-chamfered spine beams in the ground floors of No. 20 Church Street and No. 27 King Street suggests that these houses may be of relatively early date. The interior has not been inspected. This group of buildings is a rare and notable survival from a period earlier than the late 18th and 19th-century development of Brighton.