37, Abbeygate Street

This is a shop, originally with living accommodation, dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with 20th-century rendering that reveals comb pargeting, and has slate roofing to the front and tile to the rear. It occupies a corner site.

The front range, facing Abbeygate Street, was built in the early 19th century and features a moulded eaves cornice. The top storey has two small-paned sash windows with segmental heads and keystones. The first storey has two similarly styled windows with shouldered stucco architraves. One window on each storey projects along the curve of the corner. The ground storey was originally jettied along the front and side, and exposed joist ends are visible above the 20th-century shop fascia.

The frontage on Angel Lane is divided into three sections with varying rooflines, with the two outer sections jettied. The top storey has a casement window in each of the jettied sections, and two sash windows with a single vertical bar to the lights in the central section. The ground storey has two doors and one small-paned sash window, with a late 20th-century small-paned canted bay window at the north end.

The cellar has been modernised and is used for storage. The east wall of the cellar retains some exposed timbering. Alterations in 1989 uncovered medieval fragments, including brick vaulting and a limestone doorway near the Abbeygate Street frontage. From the top of the cellar steps, part of the ground storey ceiling of the south jettied section is visible, displaying plain, heavy flat joists. The roof over this section is a 20th-century replacement. Above the central section, the remains of a clasped purlin roof are visible, and above the north jetty is a crown-post roof with a plain square crown post braced only to the collar-purlin. The Abbeygate Street range was raised in the 19th century.