Sir Noël Coward (1899-1973)

In the 1950s Coward began to feel that his first home in Jamaica, Blue Harbour, had become too busy to work at, and so in 1955 he built Firefly, a modest one-bedroomed house with spectacular views across the Caribbean.

‘Firefly Hill has given me the most valuable benison of all: time to read and write and think and get my mind in order,’ Coward wrote in his diary. ‘I love this place. It deeply enchants me. Whatever happens to this silly world, nothing much is likely to happen here.’