45, ABBEYGATE STREET (See details for further address information)

No. 45 Abbeygate Street, which includes No. 28 Hatter Street, is a building that features two shops, one on the ground floor and another on the first floor accessed from No. 28 Hatter Street. It has a core dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, but was refronted in the 18th century.

The exterior consists of two storeys and a cellar on the one-bay Abbeygate Street side, with both sections being timber-framed and rendered, topped by a 20th-century double Roman tiled roof. The Hatter Street front has two storeys and an attic, with a three-bay layout. The Abbeygate Street range includes a single 12-pane sash window in a flush cased frame at the front and another on the gable end. The shop front partially overlaps with No. 46's ground storey and wraps around a corner into Hatter Street, where a former corner entrance is now blocked. The shop front features a moulded fascia supported by console brackets, windows separated by plain vertical bars, and panelled stall-boards. There is a recessed entrance door on Abbeygate Street. The Hatter Street range has two 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames on the upper storey and two small-paned tripartite sashes with diminished side-lights on the ground storey. A flat-headed lead-covered dormer with a 6-pane sash window is also present. The recessed entrance door at the south end is accessed by three stone steps and features a semicircular-arched doorway with panelled reveals, an Edwardian four-panel door, and an unusual star form in the radiating glazing-bars of the fanlight.

Inside, the cellar wall along the Abbeygate Street frontage has a base of stone blocks with some coursed flint above, old render, and renewed ceiling beams. No other original features are exposed.