Thetford houses [26]

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Thetford houses [26]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Numbers 89 and 91 Castle Street are a pair of mid 19th century houses. Built in flint with fronts of gault brick, number 91 had been rendered and colourwashed. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207613 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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