Thetford buildings [6]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Number 14 White Hart Street was a theatre and shop until 1833. It then became two houses and a shop and was converted to offices in the late 20th century. The building now houses a day nursery. Built in the mid 18th century in flint and clunch, the building was refronted in gault brick and the shop front inserted in the late 18th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1297788 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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