Thetford buildings [47]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Now partly converted, these maltings fronting Raymond Street were built in 18661 on the site of earlier maltings from 1769. There are two parallel blocks linked by a cross wing. The main block to Raymond Street is warehouse and manufactory, the smaller block is maltings. Constructed with a flint facing to clunch and brick walls with red and gault brick dressings. The building was altered in 1967 and in 1989 when it was partly converted to offices and altered again in 1999 for a youth centre. Listed, grade II. with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1196083 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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