Thetford buildings [31]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

This range of three late 18th century houses are built in flint with gault brick dressings, partly rendered and whitewashed. In the mid 20th century they were converted into commercial premises with (left to right) The Old Mill public house, Rudolph's Nite Spot and The Old Mill Pizza House. What was the public house is now offices and occupied by a firm of financial consultants, the other two houses would appear to have returned to domestic dwellings. There is another view at Image Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1219188 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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