Source/Archive record (Archive) SLI18054 - Land at the Rear of 4-8 St Mary's Hill, Stamford: Archaeological Watching Brief & Photographic Building Survey Report

Title Land at the Rear of 4-8 St Mary's Hill, Stamford: Archaeological Watching Brief & Photographic Building Survey Report
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Date/Year 2009

Abstract/Summary

Archive for a programme of archaeological monitoring and recording and building survey conducted at 4-8 St Mary's Hill, Stamford during the extension and alteration of a restaurant. During the monitoring works a 7m stretch of the south face of the Medieval town wall was encountered, as was a similar length of the south wall of the adjacent bastion. Stone for stone recording of both wall elevations was undertaken. The investigation also encountered the foundations of a post-Medieval boundary wall known to follow the route of the former town wall. The building survey comprised a basic descriptive account and photograph record of all of the outbuildings in the survey area. The rear wing of 8 St Mary's Hill, which post-dates the rest of the building; run plaster ceiling cornices and large sash windows on the first floor point to a likely Georgian date. Further west is an outbuilding that originally was free-standing but has since been subsumed into the main building. Both are of limestone rubble, with pitched gabled roofs of slate. The upper storey of the former outbuilding is brick, suggesting it may originally have been single storey. Joining the two outbuildings is a probable former Victorian laundry, with a brick-built copper in the east wall. It appears to originally have been L-shape in plan, constructed of limestone rubble with large quoins at the northwest corner, later extended in brick to match the width of the rest of the building.

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Location

City and County Museum LCNCC: 2009.21

Referenced Monuments (2)

  • 8 St Mary's Hill, Stamford (Building)
  • Medieval bastion and town walls, St Mary's Hill, Stamford (Monument)

Referenced Events (2)

  • Land at 4-8 St Mary's Hill, Stamford
  • Outbuildings, 8 St Mary's Hill, Stamford

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Jun 26 2024 11:56AM

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