Burghley House, Cambridgeshire
Burghley House is a grand Elizabethan prodigy house in its own parkland just outside the town of Stamford. The house was built for and mostly designed by Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. Cecil was born in 1520 in the nearby market town of Bourne in Lincolnshire.
The house was built between 1555 and 1587, and modelled on the privy lodgings of Richmond Palace. The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodelling prior to 1800.
The park was laid out to designs by Capability Brown in the late 16th century.
Burghley House, Cambridgeshire
Burghley House is a grand Elizabethan prodigy house in its own parkland just outside the town of Stamford. The house was built for and mostly designed by Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. Cecil was born in 1520 in the nearby market town of Bourne in Lincolnshire.
The house was built between 1555 and 1587, and modelled on the privy lodgings of Richmond Palace. The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodelling prior to 1800.
The park was laid out to designs by Capability Brown in the late 16th century.