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• Palatial 4-bedroom+*, 6-bath waterfront estate on 5 acres
• 15,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor living space
• 500-foot sandy beach directly on the Caribbean
• 35' x 55' free-form swimming pool
• 2 sea kayaks
• Air-conditioning in all bedrooms and Pool Cottage
• Satellite dish ... televisions, VCRs, DVD, stereo cassette/CD player
• 2 telephone lines
• Complimentary ADSL internet access … bring your own laptop
• Safes, robes and hairdryers
• Staff of 7: chef (Gourmet Cuisine Course graduate), butler, chambermaids, gardeners, laundress
• Round Hill beach club membership (four-minute drive)

• Master Bedroom
  Kingsize bed, 3 walls of louvered mahogany doors, private verandah, television, his and hers bath featuring a 7-foot circular sunken marble tub and shower inside a walled garden.
• Bedroom 2 & 3
  Kingsize beds, louvered mahogany doors opening to private porches, en-suite baths and sunken
  tubs inside walled gardens.
• Pool Cottage
  Living room, wet bar, ice maker, television, verandah, doors to pool and pool terrace.
  Large bedroom with kingsize bed. Air-conditioned living room with twin beds for 9th and 10th guests. * Two bathrooms with walk-in showers. 2,000 square feet.

A paradigm of elegance and style, Noble House is an architectural gem, unique in the Caribbean. Its design is a series of airy pavilions with peaked roofs, its living spaces separated by water gardens and bridges. Indoor spaces flow into outdoor with Oriental grace. Rooms are walled by tall mahogany French doors that open to private landscaped porches, inviting in the exotic outdoors and refreshing tradewinds. Ceiling fans are throughout.

The 6,000-square-foot main pavilion consists of the Great Room with 56 glass doors and massive wrap-around verandah on floors of gleaming white Jamaican marble. Outside the Great Room, a Japanese footbridge arches over a reflecting pool to the impressive formal dining room. Like the Great Room, the dining room has wrap-around glass doors that open to the mesmerizing panorama of gardens and ocean view. Adjacent to the dining room are a full bar and powder room.

Meals here merit special attention. The Noble House cook has completed a gourmet cuisine cooking C\course and earned the chef’s emblem. Grocery budget is $45 per adult per day, $20 for children. Breakfasts are served on the main verandah overlooking the groomed gardens and sea just beyond. Lunches are served by the pool or beach or on the shaded verandah. Dinners are served in the formal dining room under an elegant crystal chandelier or less formally on the verandah.

Distinctive at Noble House are the baths ... three with sunken tubs and three with glass-doored showers. Four baths feature sliding glass walls that open to private gardens, night-lighted for memorable bathing experiences. Also distinctive is the excellent cuisine presented by chef Valrie.

Throughout the villa is a remarkable collection of art and antiques gathered by Broadway Billy Rose and later acquired by the original homeowner, the late New York tycoon Sol Atlas ... including a drop-leaf tavern table c. 1700, a hand-carved livery cupboard c. 1640, a 19th Century grandfather clock, carvings from Indian temple chariots and an abundance of original art.

• Grocery budget at Noble House is $45 per adult per day, $25 for children.