A nineteenth century stately home modeled on Neoclassical style, located in Mutwal north of Colombo on the cost where the Kelani River used to meet the Indian Ocean.
Built by Henry Augustus Marshall, an Englishmen who accompanied Lord North who was the first British Governor of Ceylon.
Louis H. S. Pieris, the son-in-law of Sir Charles Henry de Soysa thereafter became the owner and it was later leased to Stipperger, the representative of the Austrian Lloyd Shipping Company in Colombo.
Antony and the family lived until it was leased as a tea store used by companies such as Bartleets, JEDB and SPC.
Since then it has been managed by the National Housing Development Authority with the latest refurbishments undertaken in 2010.