Stamford buildings [182]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Sep 2021

Number 14 Broad Street is a former public house. The front range was built in the mid 18th century incorporating parts of a 17th century structure. The building was greatly altered circa 1800. Constructed of coursed rubble stone with an ashlar front under a stone slate roof. The building was the Salutation Inn and later the Stag and Pheasant public house. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360373 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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