At Killerton House (NT) in Devon there is a quirky summer house It was built for Lydia - Lady Acland - in the 1860's.
It later became known as the Bear's Hut
when her grandson, Gilbert, used it to house
a pet bear which he had shipped over
from Canada. Each of the three rooms is built with different materials - the floors
with cobbles, deer knuckle bones and log sections - the ceilings with basketry,
matting and deer skins. The stained glass window in the "hermit's
chamber" was made in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century.
Joy Owen
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