49, Abbeygate Street

49 Abbeygate Street is a shop with living accommodation above, dating from the early 17th century and mid 19th century. The exterior features a three-storey painted brick front with a slate roof and a two-storey, five-bay timber-framed and rendered rear range with a plain tiled roof. The front has three small-paned sash windows with stucco reveals and architraves, along with dentilled cornices and a segmental pediment on console brackets above the first-storey windows. The ground storey has a 20th-century shop front with a recessed central entry. A side door on the west leads into a passage beside the long L-shaped and jettied rear range, which has a high moulded wooden cornice. Originally, this range had a continuous row of slightly projecting six-light mullion-and-transom windows, supported on small moulded stop brackets along the upper storey, but only three of these windows now survive, some with removed mullions. Other original openings have been blocked, and there is one replacement small-paned sash window. On the ground storey, a range of similar but more heavily moulded mullion-and-transom windows is divided into three groups of three lights below a moulded fascia covering the joist ends of the jetty. To the north of these windows are two small-paned sashes from around 1700 with thick ovolo-moulded glazing bars.

Inside, the cellar below the western half of the front has plastered rubble walls that may be medieval, with Tudor brick arches along the west wall. The east wall features a projecting stone resembling a corbel, set low in the wall, with a small pointed-headed niche nearby. The rear range shows no evidence of original partitions and has ovolo-moulded main beams on both storeys, trimmers with stepped stops, and covered joists. The roofs are not readily accessible.