Нувара-Элия. Шри Ланка. Nuwara Elia. Sri Lanka. Grand Hotel. Fort windshire hotel , Misthill Rest aeroshot.

The Grand Hotel is a four-star boutique hotel in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, that was built in the style of an Elizabethan-era manor house.] The hotel has 154 rooms, including three presidential suites, four junior suites, including a governor’s suite that have been maintained to preserve the traditional design. The Grand Hotel has a number of restaurants, bars and a billiards room. The original building, a single storey bungalow, called ’Barnes Hall’, was constructed as the holiday residence of Sir Edward Barnes,[3] the fifth Governor of Ceylon (1776-1838) in 1828,[4] for the sum of £8,000.[5] Following Barnes’ departure from Ceylon in 1831 it was rented to his successor as Governor, Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton. It was subsequently purchased by Reginald Beauchamp Downall (1843-1888), a planter and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, who operated it a small guest house/hotel.[6] On 12 April 1892 it was sold to the Nuwara Eliya Hotels Company Limited.[6] William Milsom, owner of “pro