Editing Oundle (section)

===Public houses===
[[File:Internal View of Oak Staircase with The Talbot Hotel.jpg|right|thumb|Internal View of Oak Staircase within The Talbot Hotel]]
Among the oldest buildings is the [[The Talbot Hotel (Northamptonshire)|Talbot Hotel]]. This was constructed of timber; it was rebuilt with stone in 1626 from the ruins of nearby [[Fotheringhay Castle]].  The hotel is notable for the claim of being haunted by the ghost of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], who was executed in Fotheringhay in 1587.  The hotel is said to contain the oak staircase taken from the ruins of Fotheringhay Castle that Mary walked down while being escorted to her execution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.english-inns.co.uk/HauntedInns.htm|title=Haunted Hotels &#124; Haunted Inns in England &#124; English Country Inns|website=www.english-inns.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talbothotel.co.uk/the-hotel/history/|title=History|website=The Talbot Hotel, Eatery and Coffee House - Oundle, Northamptonshire}}</ref>
The hotel has a room named the Drumming Well Room, named after a well in a yard that was reputed to produce a drumming noise warning of events of ill-omen or of imminent death.<ref>{{cite news|title= At Oundle|newspaper= Stamford Mercury |date= 9 September 1714|page= 11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://oundle-heritage.daisy.websds.net/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=OUHOS00040.pdf&origFilename=OUHOS00040.pdf|title= The Drumming Well|website= Oundle Heritage|accessdate= 18 June 2022}}</ref>

Other [[public house]]s include The Rose & Crown, a 17th-century inn, The Ship Inn, a 14th-century [[coaching inn]], The George, and The Riverside, which has become derelict.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Riverside Inn, Oundle |url=http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/northamptonshire/oundle_riverside.html |website=Closed Pubs}}</ref>