Ferncliff, built in the mid 1800s is one of the first bungalows in “Little England” a name Nuwara Eliya is still know by. Steeped in History the deed for our land goes all the way back to 1831, and they say Sir Samuel Baker (credited with founding the town in 1846) walked these gardens and used the original house for his stable boys.

In more recent times renown author, and Booker Prize winner, Michael Ondaatje used to holiday here with his family, and makes repeated reference to Ferncliff in his literary biography “Running in the Family”. The family that purchased the land from the Crown in the 1840s, still own it, and the portrait of F C Loos, the first Ceylonese landowner in Nuwara Eliya, hangs over our mantelpiece.