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St. Marys Street, STAMFORD, PE9 2DG

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.

The Vaults public house, number 19 St Mary's Street, the right part of which is seen here with the left 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.

A Sam Smiths public house on St Mary's Street, Stamford.

A Sam Smiths public house on St Mary's Street, Stamford.

Number 20 St Mary's Street incorporates in the rear wing a medieval house. The jettied street front was underbuilt and refaced in the mid 18th century and further heightened circa 1800. Constructed of coursed rubble stone, stuccoed above the ground floor, under a stone slate roof. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062973 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.

One of two Sam Smith's public houses in Stamford.

Number 21 St Mary's Street was built, in the Gothic style, as an office by the owner of number 22 St Mary's Street circa 1827. Constructed of small, coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings under a stone slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360029 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.

An eclectic mix of buildings, starting with the public house, St Mary's Vaults.

It had been pouring with rain while I shopped, but briefly the clouds blew away and the dying sun danced across the rooftops. The building on the left is the pub known as St Mary's Vaults, and the white one can be dated as far back as the 13th Century, though it has a Georgian facade. see https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1169751 and https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062973 for details

A grey November afternoon. In the distance on the left is the stately colonnaded facade of the former Stamford Hotel (1810-29), "one of the grandest of Regency hotels" according to Nikolaus Pevsner. The Shell Guide explains that it was built to be the town's Whig Centre, a counterpart to the Tory George Hotel.