The Old Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Palace
- WRENN ID
- winter-lintel-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Palace, Old Palace Road, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5ES
- OS grid reference
- TR 193 555
- Coordinates
- 51.2569, 1.14231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Palace is a late 18th-century house built by Robert Packham. It is two storeys and has attics, and is constructed of stuccoed walls. The roof is tiled, with a castellated parapet featuring a pediment centrally positioned to hide two dormers. The house has seven sash windows, although the glazing bars are now missing. A modern section has been built outwards along the front of the building. An L-shaped wing was added in the 19th century to the east end of the south front.
The site has an earlier history, as Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer built a palace here in 1552, which was subsequently enlarged by Archbishop Matthew Parker in the 16th century. The palace was demolished during the Civil War. Only the Gatehouse survives, now a cottage adjoining The Old Palace to the south-east.
Local climate
The Old Palace sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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