Ehelepola Walawwa

"This under-rated site now been used as an administrative office by the Archaeology Department in Rathnapura. This is the "Consorts" Castle of Ehelepola Nilame (1773 – 1829) was a courtier of the Kingdom of Kandy. He was the first Adigar (a role which combined the powers of a prime minister and a chief justice) from 1811 to 1814 under the reign King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha (Last King of the country). He was appointed by the king as the Disawe (local governor) of Sabaragamuva. His Mansion (Walawwa) is separate from this Mansion which is currently the house to Rathnapura Museum. Apart from this he has a separate mansion built in Kandy as well. Not even the King had a structure of this magnitude for his consorts during the Kandyan era. Wooden teak floors and the Architecture resembles the meticulously given details when building the mansion which was housed to the British agents since 1917 after the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom and its ruling provinces to the British Empire."