Stamford buildings [107]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 30 Sep 2021

The Vaults public house, number 19 St Mary's Street, the left part of which is seen here with the right part at Image, was formerly the Eagle and Child Inn. The property includes buildings of many periods, from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century. The front range is largely medieval with alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The two rear ranges are probably 17th-century. Partly constructed of stone, partly timber framed, partly jettied to the street and underbuilt in stone and partly stuccoed. All under a stone slate 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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