A family home of lime-washed walls and teak doors, kept the way it has always been — unhurried, green, and quietly grand.
Built on ancestral ground
The Dutch Bungalow is the vision of Felician Fernandopulle, an eminent lawyer from Negombo, who conceived its Dutch-colonial lines himself — a labour of love undertaken together with his wife, Anoma.
It took years to design and build, shaped alongside expert architects, interior designers and renowned landscape artists who coaxed the garden into being. And it stands on ground close to the family’s heart — ancestral land the Fernandopulles have kept since the 1870s, passed down from Felician’s grandmother.
Each with its own charisma
All rooms are subject to availability · pricing on request
Everything, within the walls
The estate is built for staying in — but Negombo is a bicycle ride away when you want it.
Powered entirely by the sun
Rooftop solar runs the whole estate — pool, kitchens, air-conditioning and all six rooms — so a stay here leaves the lightest footprint on the garden it sits in.
The estate, in passing
Old Negombo, at cycling pace
The town they call “Little Rome” — for the many Catholic churches the Portuguese built along this coast — with lagoon, fort and fish market all a gentle ride away on the house bicycles.
Outrigger canoes and the morning catch, a stone’s throw from the Bungalow.
1672 ramparts and the old Hamilton Canal the family once traded along.
Soaring painted ceilings — among the grandest in Sri Lanka.
A long, broad strand of west-coast sand for sunset walks.
Seafood grills, breezy pubs and easy nightlife strung along the shore.
Write to us, and the house is yours.
Tell us your dates and the occasion. We reply personally, usually within a day.
We arrived as guests and left feeling we’d been handed the keys to a family home.