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Burghley House
Burghley House is a grand 16th‑century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, built as an Elizabethan prodigy house and still occupied by the Cecil family estate. The estate includes a long three‑storey limestone mansion with towers and crenellated roofline, extensive state rooms open to visitors, and Capability Brown–designed parkland with avenues and a man‑made lake.
Its prime
1779
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1779
The shape it held in its prime.
A wide, symmetrical pale limestone Elizabethan façade three storeys high, set behind an expanse of clipped green lawn; regular rows of tall mullioned windows punctuate projecting bays and square towers capped by small domes and spires. The flat roofline is defined by a low parapet with stone pinnacles and balustrades; a central arched entrance is fitted with an ornate metal gate. Low parkland and mature specimen trees extend away from the south front under a broad sky.
Step inside
12 places to explore in 1779.
The record describes 12 distinct spots at Burghley House — including 7 interiors: circuit of state apartments, bow room (painted room), hell staircase (stair hall) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
Create History
Recreate Burghley House with AI to explore it.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1779 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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Families who held Burghley House.
The families tied to Burghley House across its history — follow a name to its page.
Built for Sir William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, between 1555 and 1587; seat of the Cecil Earls and Marquesses of Exeter and still lived in by the family.
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