The house is located on the site of a large multivallate hillfort known as Danesfield Camp, which originally had ramparts to north, east and west.

Antiquarian Thomas Langley reported in 1797 that the site was a Danish encampment (hence "Danes-field"), but that interpretation was challenged by later finds of artefacts from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages.

Her son, John Morton, was a barrister and became Attorney-General to Queen Charlotte and Chief Justice of Chester (1762–1780).

Shortly after it was completed, the estate was sold by Hudson to a property speculator, Mr Hossack, and then to Mrs Arthur Hornby Lewis.

Mrs Hornby Lewis died in 1930 and left the estate on trust for her 16-year-old grand niece Elizabeth Whitelaw.

It was bought and renovated by Stanley Garton, but the Second World War intervened, and it became the temporary home of 80 boys from Colet Court prep school, evacuated from Hammersmith.

The RAF added many temporary wooden structures, and it was bought by the Air Ministry in 1948 to become the divisional headquarters for No.

[2] The north and west lodges, steps, walls and fountain in the garden are Grade II listed.