The spacious air-conditioned Green Room has two single beds and a balcony overlooking the courtyard. It has its own bathroom with shower, basin and loo.

The Green Room and The Pink Room make a useful and separate family suite with its own lockable door and its own open space in the gallery.

Stairs lead up from this area to a cool, north-facing gallery with a painted ceiling. The Pink Room is a sumptuous double room opening out to the gallery, with the original painted ceiling and a seating alcove with Gibb’s Frieze picked out in jewel-like colours. Its bathroom is five paces away across the gallery and consists of shower, loo, basin and bidet.

These Green Room and The Pink Room make a useful and separate family suite with its own lockable door and its own open space in the gallery.

On the left of the courtyard is the Blue Room with tadelakt the colour of the Aegean Sea and walls embellished – as they are throughout the house – with hand carved Gibb’s frieze. This has a rather larger bathroom with a bath, basin, shower, bidet and loo.

On the right as you enter the courtyard is the Olive Room – with smooth tadelakt walls the colour of old green leather books, and a curious, but very Moroccan carved plaster canopy over the double bed. The heavy doors, intricately painted by the young man who worked on the King’s Palace, open straight out into the courtyard. The massively thick walls of this room provides a cool refuge from the sun. It has its own bathroom with loo, basin and shower.