| Burghley House | |
|---|---|
 The façade of Burghley House | |
| Type | Prodigy house |
| Location | Cambridgeshire |
| Coordinates | 52°38′33″N 0°27′09″W / 52.642393°N 0.452585°W |
| Built | 1555–1587 |
| Architect | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley |
| Architectural style(s) | Elizabethan |
| Website | burghley.co.uk |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | Burghley House |
| Designated | 16 January 1956 |
| Reference no. | 1127501 |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | Stables with forecourt railings and service wings and servants wing, brewery and porters lodge |
| Designated | 16 January 1956 |
| Reference no. | 1127502 |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | The Orangery |
| Designated | 16 January 1956 |
| Reference no. | 1127503 |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | North Forecourt Area Railings and Gates at Burghley House |
| Designated | 16 January 1956 |
| Reference no. | 1331234 |
| Official name | Burghley House |
| Designated | 16 January 1985 |
| Reference no. | 1000359 |
  Location of Burghley House in Cambridgeshire | |
Burghley House (/ˈbɜːrli/[1]) is a grand sixteenth-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 on a seasonal basis[2] and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.[3]
The house is on the boundary of the civil parishes of Barnack and St Martin's Without in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire. It was formerly part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with Northamptonshire. It lies 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south of Stamford and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Peterborough city centre.
The house is now run by the Burghley House Preservation Trust, which is controlled by the Cecil family.
- ^ "Burghley or Burleigh". Collins Dictionary. n.d. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ Covid-19 outbreak
- ^ Turner, Roger (1999). Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape (2nd ed.). Chichester: Phillimore. pp. 110–112.