Pack o' Cards

The Pack o' Cards is a historic house built about 1690 in Combe Martin in North Devon.

[2] Located on the long High Street in Combe Martin, the building was constructed in about 1690 by local squire George Ley, who, it is said, celebrated his good luck at card games when, after winning a large sum of money, he built a house to represent a house of cards[3] on a plot of land measuring 52 × 53 feet, representing the cards in a pack plus the joker.

Records show that it was serving that function early in the 19th century, when in 1822 it was called the King's Arms Inn and a Jane Huxtable was the landlady.

All the principal rooms have moulded plaster cornices, while good quality panelled joinery survives throughout the building.

[2] Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as the only noteworthy building in the village, being "a rare folly, built on a cruciform plan with a towering display of symmetrically grouped chimneys, eight together".