The Manor House is a boutique hotel in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

, located in

Aladeniya Aladeniya is a village located within Kandy District of Sri Lanka's Central Province. It lies north-west of Kandy on the main road to Kurunegala. Demographics See also *List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka Central Province, Sri Lank ...

, about from

Kandy Kandy (, ; , ) is a major city located in the Central Province, Sri Lanka, Central Province of Sri Lanka. It was the last capital of the Sinhalese monarchy from 1469 to 1818, under the Kingdom of Kandy. The city is situated in the midst of ...

. The original building, known as the Nugawela Aluth

Walauwa Walauwa or walawwa is the name given to a feudal/Colony, colonial manor house in Sri Lanka of a Native headmen of Ceylon, native headmen. It also refers to the feudal social systems that existed during the colonial era. The term walauwa is derive ...

, was constructed in 1884 by K. Nugawela. The current building was constructed in 1924 by Punchi Banda Nugawela,

Diyawadana Nilame Diyawadana Nilame is the office of the chief lay custodian of the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Formerly an office of the royal household, at present it is the trustee for the Temple of the Tooth as defined by the ''Buddhist Temporal ...

Temple of the Tooth Sri Dalada Maligawa, commonly known in English as the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, is a Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the Royal Palace Complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which houses the relic of the tooth of ...

. He was responsible for designing and building the present Preaching Hall and Museum at the Kandy Maligawa. The old Walauwa was demolished in 1952.

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...

stayed in the house in November 1928 and

Gregory Peck Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, 12th-greatest male ...

, resided here whilst filming ''

The Purple Plain ''The Purple Plain'' is a 1954 British war film directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in the Burma campaign in the closing months of the Second World War, who is bat ...

'' in 1955. In 1950 Colonel Derrick Nugawela sold it to M.P.S. Marawanagoda. His son, Ratnapala Marawanagoda, decided to convert the Walauwa into a hotel in 1998, as Hotel Mansion Nugwela. In July 2004 it was purchased by the de Silva family who restored the building and converted into a boutique hotel.

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* Hotels in Kandy Houses completed in 1924 Hotels established in 1999 Buildings and structures in Kandy District Manor houses in Sri Lanka 1999 establishments in Sri Lanka {{SriLanka-struct-stub