Est. Ceylon
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The Tea Museum
Prince Street · Colombo Fort
The leaf that built a nation — a museum steeped in two centuries of Ceylon tea.
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Ceylon · Colombo · Galle Fort · Est. 1850
Colonial Properties
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Three treasures of a bygone Ceylon — the Tea Museum, the Old Post Office and the Colonial Hotel — restored with reverence, and reborn.
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My dear traveller,
In the salt air of the Fort, beneath the arcades of Prince Street and the ramparts of Galle, the last grand buildings of British Ceylon still keep their watch. Their timbers remember the clatter of horse-drawn carriages, their counters the ink of a thousand telegrams, their courtyards the perfume of the day's first pot of tea.
These are not merely buildings — they are keepers of memory. Colonial Properties (Pvt) Ltd has taken it upon itself to raise them gently from the dust: to modify, preserve, and present them to generations yet to come, for the betterment of the tourism industry of Sri Lanka.
We bid you welcome to our collection.
“To restore a building is to remember a nation.”
0Our earliest address
0Years of living history
0Heritage properties
0Billion LKR · restoration
The Collection
Three Properties,
One Century
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Est. Ceylon
Galle Fort
II.
The Old Post Office
Galle Fort · c. 1850
Where Ceylon's first telegrams flew — restored into a grand house of lobby, bar and courtyard.
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Boutique
III.
The Colonial Hotel
Colombo · Heritage Stay
Sleep, quite literally, inside history — beneath colonial arches and verandahs.
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From the archives · c. 1930
The colonial heart of Ceylon still beats along Prince Street.
Wander the Heritage ⟶“
Every door we open is a door that a hundred years has closed behind it.
— The Restorers of Colonial Properties