As the name suggests, the hotel is literally the heritage of the Lekhyananda family, with the property on which it sits having been in the family for generations. Faithful to its heritage, Nanda features the original wooden components salvaged from the Nanda Mansion, the family’s generations-old European-style teak wood residence built in 1920, once located in the family’s compound on Petchburi Road, not too far from the hotel. From wood door frames to windows, floorboards to wall boards, carved teak wood banisters to louvered ventilation panels, or even the custom-made teak furniture - the original components of the family’s home were carefully removed, cleaned and repurposed to create historical authenticity for Nanda Heritage Hotel.

Nanda Heritage Hotel’s award winning contemporary design is largely a result of the hotel being situated where it is. The design of the building is accretive with the mass of the black outer shell being six stories high in order to maintain the street edge, while the parts inside are four and two stories high to complement the shop houses on the side alley and frame the view of the courtyard of the adjacent, historic Parinayok shanty community.