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The Old Post Office, 4 Main Street, Little Thetford

History of the Old Post Office

Listed Building

Cottage, C17, timber-frame and brick, rendered, with a recently laid, plain-tiled and slate, gabled roof. …Little Thetford is a hamlet of Stretham for ecclesiastical purposes, but a separate civil parish with its own Council. The modern name is derived from ‘Theod-ford’, from which the marshy nature of the original settlement until the C17 drainage of the Fens, can be inferred.The Old Post Office is C17 in date and was built as a timber-framed cottage. The house appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887 by which time it had been extended to the rear and there was an addition to the north, now lost. (Historic England)

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