Danbury Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Mansion. 2 related planning applications.
Danbury Palace
- WRENN ID
- eastward-span-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Danbury Palace, Danbury Park, CM3 4FA
- OS grid reference
- TL 766 049
- Coordinates
- 51.71552, 0.55553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Danbury Palace is an early 19th-century red brick mansion built in 1832. It occupies the site of an earlier Mildmay mansion dating from 1589. The design is attributed to Susan Costantia Round, wife of the owner, and Thomas Hopper. From 1845 to 1890, the palace served as the residence for the Bishops of Rochester and later of St Albans. It is currently owned by Essex County Council. The main block is two storeys high, with some parts rising to three and four storeys. Windows are generally mullioned and transomed casements. A prominent two-storey entrance bay projects on the west side, featuring an ornamental open parapet and corner turrets. The south side has a castellated parapet, with an octagonal corner turret on the north-east corner. A chapel with traceried windows was added to the south end by Bishop Wigram between 1860 and 1867.
Local climate
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 — 73 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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