Thetford houses [30]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Number 30 Castle Street (nearest the camera) is an early 19th century house in flint, coursed clunch and brick, re-skinned in brown brick circa 1888. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1195923 The terrace of three houses, numbers 32,34 and 36 Castle Street, was built circa 1830 in flint with gault brick dressings. Each property is defined by quoins. Number 32 has an early 19th century shop window. The shop fronts to numbers 34 and 35 have been replaced. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207589 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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