Pack o' Cards
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The Pack o' Cards is a historic house built about 1690 in Combe Martin in North Devon. Today it is a public house and hotel. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.
The Pack o' Cards in 2017
As The King's Arms Inn c.1905
Rear view of the Pack o' Cards
The side entrance to the Pack o' Cards
Nikolaus Pevsner
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Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German-British historian who specialised in the areas of art and architecture. He is best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides,
Pack o' Cards
…is said to have stayed. All the principal rooms have moulded plaster cornices, while good quality panelled joinery survives throughout the building. 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…
Nikolaus Pevsner
The demolition of the Euston Arch in 1962 drove Pevsner and others to redouble their efforts to save Victorian buildings
English Heritage Blue plaque commemorating Pevsner's Hampstead home