Burghley House

Burghley House is an Elizabethan prodigy house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, built between 1555 and 1587 for Sir William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who served as Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. The house cost some 21,000 pounds to build and its exterior still largely shows its original Elizabethan appearance, even though the interiors were remodeled before 1800. It contains 35 major rooms on its ground and first floors plus more than 80 lesser rooms, holds an extensive collection of seventeenth century Italian paintings, and sits within parkland later landscaped by Capability Brown. The house remains occupied by descendants of the Cecil family through the Burghley House Preservation Trust. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/