Facilities include a resident manager and emergency alarm service, communal lounge, laundry and guest facilities.
Grantham is an old market town on the River Witham and was known as Graham in Domesday with a church and four mills. It has long been a farming and hunting centre its name probably deriving from 'Granta's homestead or village'. The spire of St Wulfrun's Church is a local landmark and the church is well known for its Norman pillars and library.
The Knights Templar established the Angel and Royal in the 15th century and there are several other inns surviving from the middle ages when the town was an important staging post on the Great North Road. Nearby is the Norman manor house of Boothby Pagnell and Grantham Castle lies about three miles to the southwest.
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