Across its 4,650 hectares, this historic estate owns a number of unusual buildings and monuments. A traditional rural estate such as Burghley takes considerable pride in the variety and quality of these sorts of historic monuments which stand as handsome records to local industry and recreation of the past.

Other particular features include dovecotes and the 18th Century sundial in the Collyweston Palace Garden. The Palace, now demolished, was the home of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII, and great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth I, whose Lord Treasurer and right hand man was Sir William Cecil, the first Lord Burghley.