[2][3] The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Tippu Sultan reached its conclusion at the Siege of Seringapatam.

The British achieved a decisive victory after breaching the walls of the fortress at Seringapatam and storming the citadel (during which Tipu Sultan was killed).

After the British victory at Seringapatam in 1799, Captain Scott was supervising a gun factory, in the village of Ganjam.

This factory was inspected in 1800 by Dr. Buchanan, and in 1803 by Lord Valentia, who remarked that Scott had been able to teach gun-making skills to the locals in a short period of time.

He is said to have developed close relationship with the Maharaja, who is believed to have built the Bungalow for Scott on the banks of the river.

After the war, in 1800, Col. Scott was placed in charge of the manufacturing of gun carriages at the Fort, and lived in the Bungalow by the river Cauvery.

The Mysore Maharaja (according to some accounts, the Governor of Seringapatam[5]) gave orders for the house and furniture to be maintained as it is, on the hope that Col. Scott would return one day.

This never happened, but succeeding kings of the Wodeyar dynasty kept the tradition of maintaining the Scott’s Bungalow alive.

[12] In 1931, Constance Parsons describes the bungalow as nested between pipal, tamarind and casuarina trees, with monkeys bats and birds in abundance.

There was a large inlaid bed, made of ivory, with an underneath compartment to hold a tiger, which was removed from Tipu Sultan's palace and kept here.