Daresbury was designed by Samuel Hurst Seager for the wine and spirits merchant George Humphreys.

The trees became infested by gall-making wasps (family Eulophidae, probably Ophelimus maskelli or Leptocybe invasa) and the rooks left in the 1930s.

[4] They bought it back from developers Dennis Thompson and Sharon Bartlett in 2008 in a mortgagee sale.

[1][10] Daresbury is an example of the English Domestic Revival style, also known as the Arts and Crafts movement.

[3] The awards ceremony was held on 30 November,[11] i.e. several weeks after Daresbury received significant damage from the 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake.