Thetford houses [21]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Numbers 8 and 10 Old Market Street are a pair of late 18th century houses built in flint with gault brick dressings and a 19th century refronting in gault brick. There is a cellar which is apparently much older. The houses were converted into four flats in the late 20th century. The bowed display window is early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1297898 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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