The building was owned by Cane or Cain, possibly among the bulk of Elizabethan communicants excommunicated Catholic Church on the accession of the queen.
[citation needed] He originally named the house 'The Land of Nod' in reference to the biblical story of Cain's banishment.
Cain Manor is fitted with cathedral windows and was built with wood believed to be recycled from ship timbers dating before the Elizabethan era.
The cornerstone collaborative historians' works, the Victoria County History series, lists two manors and seven hamlets in the parish of Headley and the main residences of the late Victorian age but does not mention this residence nor list this as a manor.
[1] However the name may derive from the earliest recorded manorial owner after the 1086 Domesday survey, "In the latter part of the thirteenth century [nearby Broxhead] manor was held of Baldwin de Calne".