The name Dane Court derives from the Old English 'denu' meaning a valley and the site dates back to at least 1310 being in the Index to the Charters and Rolls in the British Museum. The current mansion dates to around 1724 (Pevsner) and is on the site of an earlier manor house. It sits in a natural bowl at the south end of a valley with both ancient and more recent woodland clothing the shallow slopes to west and east. Although currently in arable use, The Park, a 21.5ha area visible from the south side of the house on the far side of the once private road, was already established as parkland at the time of the 1841 Tithe map and still retains an island clump of trees and other specimen trees. To the north of the house a long open vista was maintained with pasture fields along the valley bottom allowing for glimpses of the sea nine miles away.