Metcalfe House

This early nineteenth-century colonial mansion on the northern ridge was built as a country retreat by a senior East India Company official known for his devotion to Mughal culture. Its classical colonnaded facade and grand rooms once housed a celebrated library and art collection before the residence was damaged during the 1857 uprising. The estate also incorporated a converted Mughal tomb repurposed as a folly, a hallmark of its owner's antiquarian tastes. It survives as a marker of the hybrid Anglo-Mughal world of Delhi.