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This place is called A la Ronde.
A La Ronde is a 16-sided house or cottage located in Exmouth, Devon, England.
Built at the end of the 18th century, A La Ronde was the home of two spinster cousins, Jane and Mary Parminter, who had spent 10 years touring the continent and enjoying the inspirational architecture of great churches, castles and monuments in at least six different countries.
The result was a most unconventional, 16-sided cottage, originally sporting lime washed walls and a vast thatched roof, and at that time was flippantly referred to as a ‘South Seas Island’ hut. Inside a series of peculiar wedge-shaped rooms on one level were created around a central octagon rising to 35ft (10.6m).
More info about it, in these pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_La_Ronde
http://www.exmouth-guide.co.uk/alaronde.htm
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-alaronde
http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/heritage/england/devon/article_1.shtml
You again, Yolanda? Good. I don’t know how to make this more difficult!