Stamford buildings [121]
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Stamford buildings [121]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 30 Sep 2021
This outbuilding to number 12 St George's Square is now used as a garage. Built in the early 19th century of coursed rubble stone under a stone slate roof. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062219 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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