Stamford buildings [106]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 30 Sep 2021

Number 18 St Mary's Street was built, gable end to the street, in the early 19th century. At the rear is a late medieval range, originally timber framed but partly replaced in stone or brick. This range has a smoke-blackened crownpost roof. Constructed of rubble stone with an ashlar front under a stone slate mansard roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062972 Stamford is a market town on the southern border of Lincolnshire, located at the lowest point that the River Welland could be forded. It is some 11 miles northwest of Peterborough and about 27 miles east of Leicester, and is set on Roman Ermine Street and the Great North Road. The picturesque town is constructed almost entirely of limestone, much of the town centre was built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Jacobean or Georgian style. Tourism is an important element of Stamford’s economy.

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