Totleigh Towers

Also Totleigh, the house, Sir Watkyn’s house in Gloucestershire, the sewage dump, the joint, the premises, the darned house, the Bassett home

Sir Watkyn Bassett's country house in Gloucestershire, where the book takes place.

In each book 6 books

• In The Code of the Woosters
  Sir Watkyn Bassett's country house in Gloucestershire, where the book takes place.
• In Joy in the Morning
  The Bassett home, where Bertie once went to pinch the cow-creamer.
• In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  Sir Watkyn Bassett's country seat, where Bertie and Jeeves learned Spode's secret and scored off him.
• In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
  Sir Watkyn Bassett's Gloucestershire country house, bought furnished from a hard-up lord, which Bertie dreads and where nearly all the book takes place.
• In Much Obliged, Jeeves
  Sir Watkyn Bassett's house in Gloucestershire, scene of Bertie's recent misadventures.
• In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
  Sir Watkyn Bassett's house, from which the statuette was taken.

Connections

dealings

• is dreaded by, has as a guest Bertie Wooster 7
• belongs to, is owned by Sir Watkyn Bassett 6
• is loathed by Aunt Dahlia 2
• has as guest, employs Emerald Stoker 2
• has as a guest Gussie Fink-Nottle 2
• is advised by Jeeves 1
• has as a guest Roderick Spode 1
• is home to Stiffy Byng 1

Everyone and everything else (1)

• contains Stiffy's room 1

Inside it

• Bertie's room at Totleigh
• the Blue Room
• the collection-room
• the drive
• the garden at Totleigh
• Gussie's room
• the hall
• the kitchen garden
• the library
• the passage
• Sir Watkyn's bedroom
• the stable yard
• Stiffy's room
• the terrace
• the Totleigh dining-room
• the Totleigh drawing-room
• the Totleigh gates
• the Totleigh kitchen
• the upstairs corridor
• the yew alley

Scenes set here

The Code of the Woosters 2 scenes

1. Arriving at Totleigh Towers, Bertie learns from the butler that Sir Watkyn is out in the grounds with Roderick Spode.Chapter 2, Totleigh Towers, as a stately home of E.
2. Stiffy exults over Jeeves's scheme, reveals that Oates suspects her of the helmet theft and that she has hidden Gussie's notebook in the cow-creamer, and Butterfield summons Bertie to Madeline.Chapter 9, Totleigh Towers, as this house of terror

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 6 scenes

1. Bertie drives down to Totleigh Towers fretting about Jeeves being poached, and reflects on the house and its owner's ill-gotten wealth.Chapter 5, Totleigh Towers
2. Having eaten next to nothing at a strained dinner, Bertie wakes ravenous in his room and resolves to make for the steak and kidney pie in the kitchen.Chapter 8, Totleigh Towers
3. After Emerald Stoker's excellent lunch Bertie, going to his car, calls Stiffy a female Upas tree, and Jeeves suggests asking at the post office where Plank lives.Chapter 10, Totleigh Towers
4. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia, delighted that Emerald has taken over as cook while Anatole is ill, asks Bertie to buy Pop Bassett's black amber statuette for Uncle Tom with her legacy.Chapter 17, Totleigh Towers
5. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers, as the Bassett home
6. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers

Scenes it is in

1. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room

Talked about, but not there

The Code of the Woosters 15 scenes

1. Bertie denies loving Madeline, and Aunt Dahlia, who will skip the wedding, reveals that Sir Watkyn tried to steal Anatole while staying at Brinkley.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
2. Restored after hours at the Turkish bath, Bertie gets home to find a pile of telegrams waiting.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
3. Bertie wires Gussie that Pop Bassett would never let him in and demands to know what the rift is about.Chapter 2, the post office
4. Aunt Dahlia storms in to say Sir Watkyn nobbled Uncle Tom with lobster and bought the cow-creamer, and blackmails Bertie with the loss of Anatole's cooking into promising to steal it.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
5. Driving down to Totleigh, Bertie rails against aunts and agonises with Jeeves over whether to pinch the cow-creamer.Chapter 2
6. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room, as the Towers
7. Aunt Dahlia reveals Sir Watkyn has offered Uncle Tom the cow-creamer in exchange for Anatole, smashes the Infant Samuel, accepts that Spode's threat stops Bertie, and suggests finding a shady secret of Spode's.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
8. Bertie forgets the magic name when facing Spode, Gussie crowns Spode with a painting and flees, a brawl brings in Aunt Dahlia, and the remembered 'Eulalie' reduces Spode to grovelling, after which Aunt Dahlia scoffs at Bertie's plan to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
9. Bertie and a disapproving Jeeves enter Stiffy's vast bedroom, where the dog Bartholomew sends Bertie onto the chest of drawers and Jeeves onto the top of the cupboard.Chapters 7–8, Stiffy's room
10. Madeline tells Bertie she will marry him now she has finished with Gussie; Bertie explains the notebook and nearly convinces her, but she finds nothing in the cow-creamer and decides he made it all up.Chapter 10, the Totleigh drawing-room
11. Bertie tells Jeeves to pack for home and crows over the notebook, until Gussie trickles in to say the wedding is off.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
12. Bertie sees Spode off from menacing Gussie, mocks his asparagus-eating, and Jeeves arrives with the brandy and news that Oates was assaulted and the cow-creamer stolen, sending Spode galloping off.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
13. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as this ghastly house
14. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as this sinister house
15. Bertie tosses the helmet out of the window, Sir Watkyn's search of his room finds nothing, and as Bertie harangues him the butler appears with the helmet on a salver.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh

Joy in the Morning 1 scene

1. Florence finds Bertie apparently buying her novel Spindrift, autographs it, is thrilled to hear he reads Spinoza, and gives him a melting look that sends him fleeing.Chapter 2, the bookshop

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 8 scenes

1. Jeeves, posing as Bertie, refuses Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds, declines to tear Bertie's pages from the club book, and puts Florence through on the phone; she asks Bertie to take her to a garish night club, and he agrees, hoping to patch things up between her and Stilton.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
2. Bertie, enjoying a Stilton-free Drones, swaps telegrams with Aunt Dahlia, who orders him to Brinkley to cheer up a whiskered guest and bring her pearl necklace, but he hesitates for fear of Stilton.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
3. Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Brinkley
4. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley
5. A jubilant Aunt Dahlia bursts in on Bertie's breakfast, having learned from Jeeves that Lord Sidcup is Spode and planning to silence him with Eulalie Sœurs, and warns Bertie that Florence is planning the wedding, which he shrugs off since Stilton has drawn him in the Darts sweep.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court
6. Strolling in the grounds and gloating over having bottled Stilton up, Bertie gives Jeeves leave to go to London to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon and lends him the two-seater.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley
7. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den
8. Aunt Dahlia learns Mrs. Trotter wants Anatole, Uncle Tom reports the necklace stolen, and Jeeves offers to return the pearls secretly and reveals that L.G. Trotter refused a knighthood, giving Aunt Dahlia a hold over him.Chapter 19, Aunt Dahlia's den

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 18 scenes

1. Over a cheerful breakfast Bertie welcomes Jeeves back from Brinkley and is aghast to hear that Sir Watkyn Bassett, Madeline, Stiffy, Bartholomew and Gussie were among Aunt Dahlia's guests.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. Over lunch at the Ritz Emerald Stoker backs Bertie over the Alpine hat and reveals she is off to stay a month at Totleigh Towers, so Bertie briefs her on the Bassett menagerie and learns she thinks Gussie a lamb, leaving him with a presentiment of doom.Chapter 2, the Ritz
3. Brooding at the Drones, Bertie is told that the Rev. H. P. Pinker wants to see him, and Stinker lumbers in and upsets a small table.Chapters 2–3, the Drones smoking-room
4. Relieved, Bertie goes home and finds Gussie in a cab bound for Totleigh, who raves about Emerald Stoker and then declares that Madeline makes him sick.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat
5. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a fury over the cancelled lunch, hears Bertie is off to Totleigh, and warns him that Sir Watkyn is trying to steal Jeeves.Chapter 5, London
6. Madeline, showing Bertie to his room, tells her horrified father that Bertie is staying at least a week, and Sir Watkyn totters off for a stiff drink.Chapter 6, the upstairs corridor
7. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
8. Gussie storms in denouncing vegetables and reveals that the cook is Emerald Stoker, who lost her allowance on a horse and took the job rather than confess to her father.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
9. Jeeves tells Bertie the statuette has been locked in Sir Watkyn's collection room on Spode's advice, but Stiffy, who has a key, fetches it out and sends it back to Bertie to take to Plank after lunch.Chapter 10, Bertie's room at Totleigh
10. Plank, a Rugger-mad explorer, takes Bertie for a Daily Express reporter, and when Bertie produces the statuette and asks for five pounds he threatens to call the police, just as Jeeves comes in through the french window.Chapters 10–11, Plank's house
11. At Bertie's car Jeeves explains that Sir Watkyn told Stiffy he really paid Plank a thousand pounds and lied to Uncle Tom to annoy him, briefs Bertie on Plank, and takes the statuette himself in case Spode searches Bertie.Chapter 11, Plank's house
12. Madeline corners Bertie in the hall, furious that the vegetarian Gussie has been rude about Spode, and declares she will have nothing more to do with him if he ever eats meat.Chapter 12, the hall
13. Bertie tells Jeeves that Gussie and Madeline have fallen out over sunsets and the Blessed Damozel, and decides to dodge the school treat by lunching with Uncle Tom at Brinkley.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Totleigh
14. Jeeves reports that a boy egged Sir Watkyn and Stiffy's dog bit Gussie at the school treat; Gussie goes off to walk with Emerald Stoker, Stinker's vicarage is in doubt, and Spode bursts in.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
15. Bertie broods in his room and decides to break his promise to Stiffy and seek a cocktail from Sir Watkyn.Chapter 15, Bertie's room at Totleigh
16. Over cocktails with Pop Bassett, Bertie hears Stiffy announce there will be no dinner because the cook has eloped with Gussie Fink-Nottle.Chapters 15–17, the Totleigh drawing-room, as this house
17. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers, as the Bassett home
18. Constable Oates, still sore about the cold he caught guarding Bertie's window, marches him to the village lock-up and puts him in its only cell.Chapter 24, the police station

Much Obliged, Jeeves 6 scenes

1. Back in London after Totleigh Towers, Bertie breakfasts in a state of euphoria and Jeeves warns, with Shakespeare, that clouds may follow.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. Bertie explains to new readers how Gussie's elopement with the cook nearly left him marrying Madeline Bassett until Spode, now Lord Sidcup, claimed her.Chapter 1
3. Jeeves reveals that the typewriter Bertie heard was him writing up the Totleigh affair for the club book.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
4. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Totleigh
5. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room
6. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 1 scene

1. Pop Cook, told by the recovered Major Plank that Bertie is the crook Alpine Joe, finds Vanessa's inscribed book and goes for Bertie with his hunting crop, until he trips over the grandfather clock and Bertie crowns him with a painting and wraps him in the tablecloth before leaving for the Goose and Grasshopper.Chapter 15, the sitting-room