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.

[1] The building of the present Huntsham Court came about when Charles Troyte married Katharine Mary Walrond of Cullompton in 1864.

[2] 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.

[9] Steve Meretzky, who accompanied Adams to develop a Hitchhiker's video game, also said they were both behind schedule and admitted to "sipping expensive wines" during their stay.

A few weeks later, having done no work towards it, another call came saying the deal had fallen through but that he would still be paid half the fee; realising he had made £25,000 for doing nothing, Adams asked the owners of Huntsham Court for the biggest bottle of champagne in the cellar.