Thetford buildings [54]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Number 51 King Street is a 15th century hall house. It was rebuilt in the 16th century and remodelled in the early 19th century and is now a shop with storage above. Originally timber framed but now mostly of flint with gault brick dressings and a gault brick front. The shop front is 20th century. Some original internal features remain. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207710 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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