The Main Lodge to Danbury Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Entrance lodge. 7 related planning applications.
The Main Lodge to Danbury Palace
- WRENN ID
- late-moat-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Entrance lodge
- Address
- The Main Lodge to Danbury Palace, Main Road, CM3 4AT
- OS grid reference
- TL 766 054
- Coordinates
- 51.71956, 0.55612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Main Lodge to Danbury Palace is an early to mid-19th century red brick entrance lodge, built around the same time as Danbury Palace. It was constructed in the Tudor style, with asymmetrical single-story blocks, some of which have attics. The roof is slate, featuring stopped gables, pinnacles, and circular shafted chimney stacks.
Local climate
The Main Lodge to Danbury Palace sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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