The Judge´s Court is a Country Manor located in the medieval hamlet of Pragpur, at an elevation of 2000 ft. in the Kangra Valley of the North Indian State of Himachal Pradesh.

The property is classified as "Heritage"and this in a way makes it India's first classified Heritage Country Manor with an ambience reminiscent of the turn of the 20th Century.
It has two portions : -

- The Country Manor built by
Bhandari Ram for his
son, Justice Sir Jai Lal

- An ancestral Cottage which
is over 300 years old

The large splendid Country Manor designed in the Indo-European tradition and built in 1918 for Justice Sir Jai Lal with it's annex. The buildings stand in a 12-acre orchard consisting of mango, lychee, plum, citrus and exotic trees like camphor, clove and cardamom.

The Judge's Court's elegant accommodation comprises of 10 Double Rooms 3 of which are suites inclusive of the cottage in the ancestral courtyard.

Eco-Friendly, Organic and Green
The Judge's Court substantially grows its own fruit, vegetables, wheat, maize and oil seeds. All efforts are made towards creating environment. Milk is from an owned dairy on the premises.
Water is exclusively piped from an ancestral mountain spring.
Preserves are from the "green" produce of the orchard.

The owning Kuthiala Sood family that runs it has been part of Heritage Village Pragpur since the time it was founded.

The rooms go by such names as Kipling, Hardinge, Kangra, Dhauladhar, Hermitage etc.
and are elegantly furnished.

The Judge's Court has been lovingly restored. It offers a rare kind of hospitality, peace, quiet and exclusivity.

Accomodation is available only on prior reservation.

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