| Heritance Tea Factory | |
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 Heritance Tea Factory is an abandoned tea factory converted into a hotel | |
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| Hotel chain | Heritance Hotels and Resorts |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Colonial architecture |
| Town or city | Kandapola |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Coordinates | 6°59′28.5″N 80°50′01.5″E / 6.991250°N 80.833750°E |
| Opened | 1996 |
| Owner | Hethersett Hotels Ltd (a subsidiary of Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Nihal Bodhinayake |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 48 |
| Number of suites | 2 |
| Number of restaurants | 2 |
| Number of bars | 2 |
| Website | |
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Heritance Tea Factory, formerly known as The Tea Factory Hotel, is a luxury four-star hotel in Kandapola, Sri Lanka. The hotel is situated in Nuwara Eliya District, 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) from Nuwara Eliya, the district capital. Hethersett Hotels Ltd, a subsidiary of Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings, is the proprietor of the hotel. The hotel is part of Aitken Spence's Heritance Hotels and Resorts chain brand. The hotel is the brainchild of G. C. Wickremasinghe, a director of Aitken Spence. After seeing the neglected tea factory of the Hethersett Tea Estate on a visit in 1992, Wickremasinghe had the idea of converting the facility into a hotel. Nihal Bodhinayake is the architect who oversaw the transformation of the hotel. The hotel began its operations in 1996 as The Tea Factory Hotel. The hotel won the merit award at the 2001 UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards. The hotel is relaunched as Heritance Tea Factory at the end of 2009.