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/
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountBarnack, United Kingdom 2 Completed Year Classification
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It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior (Exeter) branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.
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The house is open to the public on a seasonal basis and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments.
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completion_date/completed = 1555-1587
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Burghley House () is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior (Exeter) branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.
The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodellings before 1800. The house is open to the public
In Style: Elizabethan Architecture, Wikipedia infobox
architecture: Elizabethan
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Barnack, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q1015079, property P131/P17 (location): Barnack, United Kingdom
In Style: Elizabethan Architecture, Wikidata P149
architectural style: Elizabethan architecture
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