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

No. 14 Abbeygate Street is a shop and offices on a corner site, originally a shop and house with workshops behind, dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, with a front dating to the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed, with the original timbers exposed in one bay of the jettied side frontage, while the remainder is rendered. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles.

The Abbeygate Street frontage has a plain parapet and a curved corner. The upper storey has two windows: a small-paned sash on the curve of the corner and a three-light sash with diminished side-lights and a wooden blind box. A lead-covered, segmental-headed dormer window with a two-light casement is set into the front roof slope. An early 20th-century shop front with a prominent fascia and a recessed corner entrance door extends along part of the side range.

The corner site also has a return front to High Baxter Street, which features a five-bay range divided into three sections with visible joins in the framing after the second and third bays. One bay on the south end exhibits exposed studding on the upper storey; the next two bays show the ends of the joists and an ogee-moulded bressumer; and the two bays to the north are unjettied, with a rendered and lined exterior restored in 1990. A variety of windows are present on the upper storey: four 19th-century small-paned sashes in moulded frames, one single-light and one two-light 20th-century casement window, and on the corner, a blocked original four-light window with molded mullions and 20th-century replacement spandrels. The ground floor has three 12-pane sash windows, one with panelled external shutters, and a six-panel door with raised fielded panels, the top two panels glazed. Adjoining to the north is a three-storey range, also restored in 1990, featuring a continuous row of fixed casement windows on the first storey and three casement windows on the top storey, two of two lights, one single light, covered by plaintiles. A small stable timepiece, made by W Potts & Sons, Leeds, dated 1900, with a double bracket "frying-pan" dial, is attached to the first floor of the Abbeygate Street frontage.

The interior cellar has walls of flint rubble and re-used stone blocks, with remnants of old render and a timber ceiling. Within the side range, some plain, widely-spaced studding and chamfered joists are visible, and in the two end bays on the north, the main cross-beams and plain, unchamfered joists of the ground storey ceiling are exposed. Original roof construction remains in part, featuring exposed clasped purlins, collars, and principal rafters.