Padley, who made scaled drawings of the buildings in 1851, said that traditionally it was thought to be part of the White or Carmelite Friary in Lincoln.

It has been alternatively suggested that the Whitefriars was the half-timbered vicarage of St Mary le Wigford church, but there is documentary evidence that in 1563 it was owned by Arthur Hall, an important Grantham merchant – this appears to be the same Arthur Hall who was the MP for Grantham.

The facade faces to the south in a narrow alley-way and the building is at a right angle to the High Street.

It has a close studded timber frame of four bays with rendered nogging and a plain tile roof.

Above, two square wooden oriels on moulded brackets and a 4-light window with wooden mullions and gothic tracery The interior has stud walls with jowled bay posts, two of them with arch braces, and arch braces to the spine beams.