Calcutta Lodge

In the novel Sleeping Murder, Calcutta Lodge is located in Dillmouth on the Seaton Road. It is the home of Mr Galbraith and his daughter Gladys. Mr Galbraith named the house after the city because he had been in Calcutta on business before the First World War.

The interior of the house is described as "neat if slightly overcrowded. It smelt of bees-wax and Ronuk. Its brasses shone. Its windows were heavily festooned". There was furniture and decorations of Indian origin such as a Benares brass table and "a procession of ebony elephants marching along the mantelpiece". Outside, the house is surrounded by a neat trim garden.