Grand Hotel (Nuwara Eliya)
The Grand Hotel (Sinhala: නුවරඑළිය ග්රෑන්ඩ් හෝටලය) is a star-class hotel situated in Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka. History On 11 August 1828, Sir Edward Barnes, the then British Governor of Ceylon (1824-1831 A.D), mandated a home for the British residents in Nuwara Eliya and in the next year (1829) he established his residence also there, by the name "Barnes Hall" ( Abeyawardana, 2004 ). In 1831, Barnes left Sri Lanka and the home fell into the hands of his successor, Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton (governed: 1831-1837 A.D.). In 1843, "Barnes Hall" was purchased by Reginald Beauchamp Downall, a British plantation owner and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. He operated it as a guest house until the property was sold to the Nuwara Eliya Hotels company in 1891, who converted the guest house into the present Grand Hotel. A protected monument The building known as “Grand Hotel” bearing Assessment
No. 17, in Grand Hotel Road in the Administrative Limits of
Nuwara …
