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Huntsham is a tiny village in a remote mid-Devon valley, energetically improved by Arthur Acland Troyte in the few years before his early death. He took the name of Troyte on inheriting the neglected estate in 1852. In the village there are several solid stone cottages from the time of the Troytes. Huntsham Court is a grand mansion of 1868-70 by Benjamin Ferrey for Arthur Troyte’s son Charles, who married into the Walronds of Bradfield. In a rather forbidding Tudor Gothic, asymmetrical, with two projecting wings, but given a little romance by an angled stair turret. The lodge, circa 1870 is possibly also by Troyte.
Huntsham Court, including walls and gate piers to courtyard listed Grade II*, Lodge, walls, gate piers and gate west of lodge listed Grade II.
T Gray: The Garden History of Devon,1995: 127
Cherry & Pevsner: The Buildings of England – Devon, 1989: 497
