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The Villages of Colbeck Castle is a housing development in Old Harbour St. Catherine, Jamaica, built around the historic Colbeck Castle ruins. Consisting several phases with housing solutions made up of 1-bedrooms, 2-bedroom detached units and 2-bedroom duplex units. Near communities like The Aviary, Colbeck Manor, Old Harbour Glades, and New Harbour Village Connection to Colbeck Castle The development is built around Colbeck Castle, a 17th-century ruin that’s a national monument and heritage site. Built around 1680 by Colonel John Colbeck, who got 1,340 acres of land after helping the English capture Jamaica in 1655 Once the largest building in Jamaica Designed in Italian Palladian style with red brick and limestone The site also has historic artifacts like an aqueduct, wheel house, boiling house, and distillery ruins The area has even older history: there’s a Taíno site, plus Spanish and English settlement layers The NHT and Jamaica National Heritage Trust plan to restore the castle and incorporate the historical artifacts into the housing development. The idea is to make the historic buildings functional so people can live near and use them, which helps preserve them better than leaving them to deteriorate.