Stamford buildings [134]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 30 Sep 2021

Gothic House, number 10 High Street has a long range running back from the street. It incorporates the rear wing of a large, probably 16th century, house, the south part of which was replaced by the present mock-gothic building in 1849. Constructed of coursed rubble stone, stuccoed with false framing, all under a stone slate roof. The early house is timber framed, plastered, jettied to the passage, under a stone slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360398 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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