The Wooster Papers

Places, in King's Deverill

Deverill Hall

Also the hall, Deverill, the house, Deverill Hall, King’s Deverill, Hants, lazar-house, the Big House, the Deverilleries

The Tudor seat of the Deverills at King's Deverill, Hampshire, home of Esmond Haddock and his five aunts, where Bertie stays as Gussie.

In each book 2 books
  • In The Mating Season
    The Tudor seat of the Deverills at King's Deverill, Hampshire, home of Esmond Haddock and his five aunts, where Bertie stays as Gussie.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    Esmond Haddock's country seat, where Jeeves impounded the cosh and used it on a policeman.

Connections

dealings

Inside it

Scenes set here

  1. Bertie arrives late at Deverill Hall, is overawed by Jeeves's Uncle Charlie the butler, gives his name as Fink-Nottle, and learns dinner has already begun.Chapter 5, Deverill Hall
  2. A frosty Silversmith brings the morning tea and says the late-night arrival was 'Mr Wooster', leaving Bertie baffled until Jeeves himself walks in with a breakfast tray.Chapters 7–8, Deverill Hall
  3. Over his first days at Deverill Hall Bertie becomes certain that Gussie has fallen for Corky, and the aunts grow bitter at the absent guest they take for Wooster.Chapter 10, Deverill Hall
  4. Jeeves reports he has got Gussie out of his beard, Bertie tells him Gussie is cured of Corky and off to Madeline and that Esmond needs a way to defy his aunts, and Jeeves leaves to help his Uncle Charlie with the refreshments just before Esmond returns.Chapter 25, Deverill Hall

Scenes it is in

  1. Esmond calls the Kegley-Bassingtons fatheads and leads Bertie into the drawing room, where Bertie is enjoying sardine sandwiches when Silversmith announces Constable Dobbs.Chapters 25–26, the drawing room at Deverill Hall

Talked about, but not there

The Mating Season 16 scenes
  1. Jeeves briefs a reluctant Bertie on Esmond Haddock, his five aunts and Gussie's coolness with Madeline Bassett before a low-spirited Catsmeat Pirbright is shown in.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. A low-spirited Catsmeat reveals that Corky is the vicar's niece who roped Bertie into the concert, explains his thwarted engagement to Gertrude Winkworth, and gets Bertie to guard her from Esmond Haddock, in return agreeing to give Gussie dinner.Chapter 2
  3. After seeing Thos off to school, Bertie comes home to find Corky and her dog Sam Goldwyn, hears of her break with Esmond Haddock and her feud with Constable Dobbs, and then a hung-over Catsmeat reveals that Gussie waded in the Trafalgar Square fountain and got fourteen days.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat, as Deverill
  4. Jeeves proposes that someone go to Deverill Hall as Gussie, Catsmeat flatly refuses, and Bertie gives in and sets off in Gussie's name, with Corky's dog Sam Goldwyn left on his hands.Chapter 4, as the Hall
  5. Dame Daphne catches Bertie on a chair and Esmond on the table singing, sends Esmond cringing to the drawing room, tells Bertie his dog Sam Goldwyn has chased Charlotte and bitten Silversmith, and packs him off to bed.Chapter 6, the dining room at Deverill Hall
  6. A frosty Silversmith brings the morning tea and says the late-night arrival was 'Mr Wooster', leaving Bertie baffled until Jeeves himself walks in with a breakfast tray.Chapters 7–8, Deverill Hall
  7. Gussie, furious at being taken for Bertie and loathing Catsmeat, rubbishes the Pat and Mike cross-talk act and refuses to hit a policeman with an umbrella, until Corky arrives and Bertie leaves her to win him round.Chapter 9, the post office
  8. Gussie returns besotted with Corky and keen on the act, reports that Sam Goldwyn bit Dobbs and was arrested, that Catsmeat will now play Mike, and hands Bertie the Christopher Robin poems he must recite at the concert.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as the hall
  9. Catsmeat bursts into Bertie's room with the news, picked up from Silversmith, that Aunt Agatha is coming to stay at Deverill Hall.Chapter 12, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as this ruddy hencoop
  10. Catsmeat returns from London with Jeeves's plan to keep Aunt Agatha away by luring Thos from school to visit Corky; after he leaves, Bertie breaks the code of the Woosters, opens Gussie's telegrams, and learns that Madeline is arriving at Deverill Hall tomorrow.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as the Big House
  11. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches, as Deverill
  12. Back at King's Deverill station, Bertie clouts the cheeky Thomas, then learns from Corky that Thomas plans to cosh Dobbs and that Catsmeat kept Madeline away by telling her Bertie loves her hopelessly, while Corky puts off dropping Gussie until he has done a mysterious little job for her.Chapter 18, King's Deverill station, as the hall
  13. Walking back to the hall brooding on Corky's job, Bertie runs into Esmond Haddock.Chapters 18–20, the road to the hall, as the hall
  14. Dame Daphne catches Bertie in the hall and is delighted to hear 'Augustus' went to Wimbledon on the milk train to see Madeline, and Silversmith announces that his daughter Queenie is engaged to Meadowes.Chapter 21, the hall at Deverill Hall, as the Deverilleries
  15. Corky drives off with the rescued Sam Goldwyn, Dobbs chases Gussie up a tree, and Jeeves lays the constable out with a cosh and leads Gussie away to remove his beard.Chapter 24, the road, as the hall
  16. Back in his room, Bertie hears from Gussie that his love for Corky died up the tree, tells him Madeline has been squared, and sees him dash off to Wimbledon just before Esmond Haddock comes in.Chapters 24–25, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as the Hall
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1 scene
  1. Bertie catches Jeeves just as he is driving off to London and arranges to go with him to collect the cosh Jeeves confiscated from young Thos, so as to face Stilton armed.Chapter 16