Pradeepa Hall (formally Whist Bungalow) is a large bungalow (as mansions are referred to locally) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A nineteenth-century stately home modelled on Neoclassical style, located in Mutwal north of Colombo on the coast where the Kelani River used to meet the Indian Ocean. It is now used as a reception hall for weddings.

It was built by Henry Augustus Marshall, an Englishmen who accompanied Lord North, who was the first British Governor of Ceylon. Marshall was an officer in the Ceylon Civil Service and went on to serve as Auditor General of Ceylon. He built Whist Bungalow as a small retreat in addition to his other houses Rock House and Modera House.

The house was bought by the Supreme Court Judge Sir Richard Morgan, who expanded the house to its current appearance and extended the garden. It was inherited by his son, who died suddenly and is rumoured to haunt the house. Louis H. S. Pieris, the son-in-law of Sir Charles Henry de Soysa, thereafter became the owner, and it was later leased to Stipperger, the representative of the Austrian Lloyd Shipping Company in Colombo. During this time, Ernst Haeckel and Lord Llandaff were guests at Whist.

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