Ehelepola Walawwa

Ehelepola Walauwa stands on Raja Veediya in central Kandy, a two-story manor house built around a central courtyard in the early nineteenth century as the ancestral home of Ehelepola Nilame (Ehelepola Disawe), who served as first Adigar to King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha from 1811 to 1814.

In 1814, after Ehelepola fled to British-held Kalutara, the king had his wife and four children executed. The killing did not happen at the walauwa itself. Three years later, following the Uva Rebellion of 1817–1818, the British used the building to hold fifty-three chieftains, nobles, and Buddhist prelates before their executions, among them Keppetipola Nilame, Madugalle Nilame, and Kivulegedara Mohottala.

In the post-independence period, from around 1948, the property became part of the Bogambara Prison complex. It was designated a Conserved Building in 1998, as part of the Sacred City of Kandy's UNESCO World Heritage listing, and gazetted as an Archaeological Protected Monument in 2005. In 2013 it was earmarked for redevelopment as a cultural and urban facility centre; a 2018 assessment found it still vacant, standing under a temporary roof to keep out water, its proposed future as a restaurant and craft store not yet built.