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Place

Baskerville Hall

Also known as the Hall.

The ancestral seat of the Baskervilles on Dartmoor, where the late Sir Charles lived and died. A great old country house with a famous yew alley, it belongs to a line said to be cursed, and is in danger of standing untenanted unless its heir comes down to live there.

Chapter III. The Problem

It sits at the centre of Holmes's ordnance map, ringed by wood, with the moor close upon one side and the yew alley running along it.

Chapter V. Three Broken Threads

Sir Henry resolves to occupy it; the butler Barrymore and his wife, who keep it, are its only resident staff.

Chapter VI. Baskerville Hall

The travellers reach it at nightfall, a brooding twin-towered house in a hollow, half-restored with Sir Charles's South African gold, with a great fire-lit hall of black oak and a gallery of silent ancestors.

Chapter VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson

Watson keeps watch over Sir Henry here and notes Barrymore's stealthy night visits to a moor-facing window in an unused wing.

Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]

From a western window a candle is held out night after night as a signal across the dark moor.

Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets

Its portrait gallery yields Holmes the crucial missing link in the case.

Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles

The shattered baronet is brought back here to lie delirious in a high fever under Mortimer's care after the night on the moor.

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