Ashley Bungalow building stands, commanding a magnificent view south facing, at the opening of a ghat on the valley which flows down gently to the plains below. The road twists and turns around the hills through beautiful the tea gardens around the bungalow and reach at the three bayed high laden front of the building facing South view . Ashley Bungalow is a sleeping place of history of the hills of Travancore. 

The tiled and steeply pitched roof of Ashley Bungalow adorns the building, with peaked roof tops standing on walls on the eastern and western flanks built like a fortress. The high laden building of Ashley Bungalow has steps with scalloped ledges which is a curious mixture of local styles and English architecture. This spacious home has lofty domed wooden ceiling  . There is a master piece of wood work, separating the dining room from the drawing room ,The split leveled garden is landscaped with a beautiful green lawn fringed on the southern side with trees like Norfolk, pine, cypress, blue gums and spathodia. The thick foliages which  let the sun rays sieve through them, makes us feel the beauty of nature. The cool wind sweep across the drawing room, set majestically with large doors among spans of glass running the full southern side.

Accommodation : Ashley Bungalow, Travancore, Kerala
The eastern side of Ashley Bungalow has two double rooms. The first is a huge one with massive bed and furniture made in abstract Victorian and mid-Victorian styles Cutting across to the dining room and further north, we can come across the second largest bedroom neatly laid with its muscular looking furniture made of teak wood. The corner most bedroom on the east is good  called 'a honeymooners den" and is set up very quietly beautifully and is always totally undisturbed.

All four bedrooms of Ashley Bungalow have fire places and large bathrooms which are ventilated by opening the top half of the windows without loss of privacy. There is another single room at Ashley Bungalow with an attached bathroom which is also offered to the guests. The large windows and good wall space of the rooms join together effortlessly to give the  Ashley Bungalow an elegant look.ed floors, is still kept in its old grandeur.

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