Thetford buildings [5]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

This row, numbers 15, 17 and 19 White Hart Street, now comprises a shop and a restaurant with flats above. Built in the early 19th century in gault brick there is a large 20th century rear extension. Number 15 has 2 bays, with a late 19th century glazed shop front. Numbers 17 and 19, now combined, both have one bay and each has a 20th century shop front. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1219271 Once the ancient capital of East Anglia, Thetford is a market town established at a crossing of the River Little Ouse. A major centre of Boudica’s Iceni tribe with an Iron Age fort. Later came a Norman castle and an important priory. Thetford is the birthplace of 18th century radical Thomas Paine, whose thinking encouraged American independence and the abolition of slavery. After World War II, Thetford became an "overspill town", taking people from London.

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