Place
Merripit House
The isolated moor home of the Stapletons, an old farmhouse put into repair, set among a stunted orchard with the moor stretching away on all sides. Mean and melancholy outside, its rooms within show an unexpected elegance, and Watson marvels what could have brought an educated man and a beautiful woman to bury themselves in such a place.
Chapter VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
Watson hurries toward it in alarm for Sir Henry, and from the hill above sees the baronet's wooing of Miss Stapleton broken up by her brother's furious interruption.
Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets
Holmes directs that Sir Henry dine here alone and then walk home across the moor by the straight path, the unwitting bait in the trap.
Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
By night it becomes the scene of the final ambush. From an out-house in its orchard Stapleton looses the hound, and within the house the searchers find Mrs. Stapleton bound and beaten to a pillar in a room lined with his butterfly cases.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
It comes out that the hound was kept in its out-house only on the supreme day, too great a risk otherwise, and that an old manservant named Anthony, a confederate of many years who knew the Stapletons were truly man and wife, had lived there and tended the place.
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