Huntsham Court
| Huntsham Court | |
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View from the west elevation
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| General information | |
| Type | Country House |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Location | Huntsham, Devon, England |
| Coordinates | 50°58′34″N 3°25′23″W / 50.97611°N 3.42306°WCoordinates: 50°58′34″N 3°25′23″W / 50.97611°N 3.42306°W |
| Construction started | 1868 |
| Completed | 1870 |
| Owner | Privately owned |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Benjamin Ferrey |
| Designations | Grade II* listed |
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Huntsham Court is a Grade II* listed country house in Huntsham, Devon, England. It was designed in the Tudor Gothic style by Benjamin Ferrey for Charles Troyte. From 1978 until 2004 it was run as a hotel, it has since been used as a venue for weddings and other functions.
Nikolaus Pevsner described it as a "grand mansion of 1868–70... in a rather forbidding Tudor Gothic, asymmetrical, with two projecting wings, but given a little romance by an angled stair-turret." A feature of particular interest is an octagonal kitchen based on the Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey.
The building of the present Huntsham Court came about when Charles Troyte married Katharine Mary Walrond of Cullompton in 1864. Her family considered the then dilapidated existing Elizabethan mansion to be unsuitable for their daughter so it was decided that the old house should be demolished and the new court built. To gain the necessary permission a private act of parliament was passed in 1866, that required £10,000 to be deposited to cover the cost of rebuilding. The new court was sited slightly to the north of the old house which was very much closer to All Saints Church as shown in the photo to the left. Much of the original Tudor wood panelling was reused in the main hall and remains there.
The architect Benjamin Ferrey had restored the adjacent All Saints Church for Arthur Troyte between 1854–6 and was also likely to be responsible for the 1871 addition to the church shortly after completing the Court for Charles Troyte.
In 2014 the property won the Hudson Heritage Award for Commercial Innovation for creating a new way of celebrating the "historic built environment" whilst preserving it for future generations, supporting local businesses and suppliers whilst also enabling the public to enjoy and use the building.
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