🏰 Baskerville Hall
The ancestral seat on Dartmoor, complete with yew alley, portrait gallery, and a family curse dated 1742. Its portraits matter: one Regency face, stripped of its curls by Holmes's hand, exposes the villain's bloodline.
A house with a curse on the deeds
Baskerville Hall is the ancestral seat at the heart of Dartmoor's great case: a heavy line of building with a central block, twin towers, mullioned windows, and a yew alley down which death has walked more than once. Its curse is documented — a 1742 manuscript recounting how the wicked Hugo Baskerville was run down on the moor by a hound of hell — and the current heir dies of terror beneath the same legend.
The portrait that betrays a bloodline
The Hall's decisive clue hangs in its own gallery. Holmes covers the curls and hat of a Regency Baskerville portrait with his arm and reveals, beneath, the living face of the villain Stapleton — proof of the secret Baskerville descent that gives him a motive to inherit. The house preserves the evidence that convicts the man scheming to own it.