[2] This gracious mansion built of local coral-limestone successfully combines Edwardian, Italian, and Caribbean architectural features into a distinctive and individualistic whole; it boasts the first swimming pool in Barbados — in which Prince Edward the Prince of Wales bathed when he visited Barbados.

"Tom" Adams and was set to be a cultural centre; but the decision was made by the Cabinet to move the Prime Minister's official residence from Culloden Farm where it had been under Errol Barrow and make Ilaro Court the official residence of the Prime Minister.

Thereafter, all persons who held the office of prime minister in Barbados, stayed at the residence, with the exception of Rt Hon.

David Thompson, who, in May 2010 moved back to his St. Philip residence after he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, subsequently dying on 23 October 2010.

ce Ilaro Court was built on land of the house Glenelg that was owned by the solicitor Charles W Fleming.

Born in 1898 on a tea plantation in Assam, India; she was brought up in London; trained in a gardening school south of London; she taught in the ladies' gardening college La Corbière école horticole pour jeunes filles on Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland; trained in Massachusetts' Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, the worldwide-first-ladies' landscape-architecture college; and worked in Bermuda government gardens where she met her Scottish plant-pathologist husband-to-be Lawrence Ogilvie also working in Bermuda in the 1920s.