It is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens,[1] and it has received the Green Flag Award.

[1] The estate was sold in 1830 to John Round; Danbury Place, in a poor state of repair, was demolished and rebuilt.

Round sold the estate in 1845 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the owners until 1892; formal gardens were laid out and the house was renamed Danbury Palace.

In 1974 the house and associated buildings became part of Anglia Polytechnic University, and the south-eastern area, including three lakes, was designated a Country Park.

The three lakes, in the wooded area to the south, are thought to date from the period of the medieval deer park.