Turreted Elizabethan prodigy house near Stamford.
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William Cecil, Elizabeth I’s chief minister, spent over thirty years building Burghley House to honour his queen — the north front was only finished in 1587, the year before he died. It’s reckoned one of the grandest Elizabethan “prodigy houses” still standing, with a roofline crowded with towers and chimneys, later state rooms, and parkland reworked by Capability Brown. House and gardens open daily except Fridays from mid-March to November, and the grounds host the Burghley Horse Trials each September. The George of Stamford is a couple of kilometres away for lunch after.
