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Wheatleys Yard, STAMFORD, PE9 1GE

The work shown in Image will end up with buttressed retaining walls like this.

This yard is being rebuilt to secure the embankment to the builder's merchants, cutting back the stone and using nets and soilnails to retain the overburden. A retaining wall will follow.

Number 51 Scotgate has just been refurbished. It is the former Crown and Woolpack public house which is now flats. Built circa 1800 with two rear wings added in the early 19th century, and was refronted in the later 19th century. Constructed of coursed rubble stone with freestone dressings under a stone slate mansard roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1170332 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.

VR wall box, narrow style, ref. PE9 7.

Originally an open structure of three bays, perhaps a 17th or 18th-century barn, number 52 Scotgate is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a rendered side gable, all under a stone slate roof. The shopfront is 19th century. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062929 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.

18th century house, later shop, with 19th century shop front, Listed Grade II.

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Rock House, Scotgate, was built in 1842. It stands on the site of an earlier house built within a stone quarry, which gave the house its name. Constructed of ashlar except for the rear wing which is in coursed rubble stone, all under a Welsh slate roof. Now used as offices. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062928 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.

This looks like classical council offices, but was sold to new owners recently who have not announced their identity.

Built in two stages in the early 18th century, Listed Grade II.