Thetford's Ancient House Museum said the former King's Head pub in White Hart Street was deterring visitors, who mistakenly thought both venues were shut.

Speaking at a recent meeting of Breckland Council's museums committee, Oliver Bone, curator at the museum, said the development next door remained at a "standstill".

He said scaffolding and corrugated iron had been holding the building up for four and a half years and workmen had left the site despite plans being approved to convert it into a housing development.........

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