According to The Buildings of England (Vere, 1970), there is an "unfortunate gap" at this point in Dollar Street. It was once the site of the old Abbey gatehouse with the almonry, or "dole hall', that gave the street its name. The fragment of wall and two gate posts are all that remains; the Abbey Lodge, number 18, is mostly early 20th century.
18 Dollar Street and Attached Wall and Gate Pier
According to Beecham, writing in the 1880s:
Rudder, in 1800 and Britton, in 1803, state that both the gateways and the barn [at Spital Gate] were still standing, but the other gate, which stood in Dollar-Street, and was known as the "Emery", properly the Almery or Dolehouse gate, must have been pulled down very soon afterwards. No-one now living has any recollection of it, but about fifteen years ago a sketch and description of it was given to the author's father by an old inhabitant, from personal recollection, and it appears that it resembled the Hospital gate, except that it had rooms over, used as a dwelling. It had become very much dilapidated before its removal [p.61].
