[4][6] A manor at Dorfold is recorded in Henry III's reign (1216–1272); early landowners were the Wettenhall, Arderne, Davenport, Stanley and Bromley families.

[9] During the Second World War, refugees, mainly from Liverpool, were housed at the hall until November 1940, when the park became a camp for Canadian soldiers.

The wrought-iron gate features a sun motif with scrolls; it stands in a moulded stone opening flanked by niches containing busts of King James I and Anne of Denmark and surmounted by lions.

[17] A large iron statue of a mastiff with puppies oversetting a food bowl stands in the forecourt of the hall; it is attributed to Pierre Louis Rouillard and came from the Paris Exhibition of 1855.

[18][19] The Dorfold Estate covers much of the civil parish of Acton, and includes farmhouses, farmland, woodland and historic parkland.

[5] Dorfold Dairy House was formerly the estate's home farm; a three-storey, three-bay, U-shaped building in red brick dating from the late 17th century, it is listed at grade II*.