Fore Street, Ipswich

Fore Street, Ipswich has been a prominent street in Ipswich, Suffolk since the fifteenth century.

[1] In the fifteenth century Fore street was at the centre of the wool trade handling the exports from the wool towns of Hadleigh, Kersey and Lavenham.

There were a number of extensive complexes of buildings between the street and the quay.

However that of Isaac Lord is the only surviving complete example of such architecture.

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