Whitefriars, 333 High Street, Lincoln

Whitefriars, 333 High Street, Lincoln

Whitefriars, 333 High Street, Lincoln
Location In Akrill’s passage, behind the frontage of Uniform Direct, 333 High Street, Lincoln
Coordinates 53°13′34″N 0°32′30″W / 53.2262°N 0.5418°W / 53.2262; -0.5418Coordinates: 53°13′34″N 0°32′30″W / 53.2262°N 0.5418°W / 53.2262; -0.5418
OS grid reference SO1392992455
Built 16th Century
Architectural style(s) Timber framed jettied House
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated 8 October 1953
Reference no. 486038
Location in Lincolnshire

Whitefriar or Akrill's Court in the High Street, Lincoln is an important but sadly neglected timber-framed building. It now has a late 20th century shop front, but the timber-framed building survives with the southern front facing the narrow Akrill’s passage, on the east side of the High Street and just to the south of the railway crossing.

History

Akrill's Passage, Lincoln by A E Wright c1880

Surprisingly little is known about this building. The name Akrill refers to a baker who owned the property in the early part of the 19th. century. 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. Adjacent to it at the east end was a small stone building with a Norman arch.[1] As the Carmellite friary has now been shown by archaeological excavation to have been under St Mark’s Station, on the opposite side of the High Street, it is unlikely that the building was associated with the friary. 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 M.P. for Grantham. The building may have been a speculative commercial , attracting superior tenants who would sell from the ground floor chamber and live with their family on the first floor.[2] Restoration work was undertaken to the building in 1963.[3]

Whitefriars, High Street, Lincoln .By J. S. Padley 1851

Description

Originally a house dating from the 15th century. 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. The first floor is jettied and is coved (curved) outwards with eaves above. South side has moulded uprights. 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. Principal rafter roof with collars and spine beam. Two stud walls without nogging.[4]

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Photograph of c1955
  2. ↑ "Stocker" (2016), p.16
  3. ↑ lincstothepast
  4. ↑ British Listed Buildings

See also - Medieval Domestic Architecture in Lincoln

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