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Cecil House, The Strand, London

Cecil House (later called Burghley House and then Exeter House), N side of The Strand, London.
London town house of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
Built as "Cecil House" 1560.
Became known as "Burghley House" after he was created Baron Burghley 1571.
His wife Mildred Cooke died there 1589.
Burghley died there 1598.

It became residence of his son Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.
Became known as "Exeter House".

It was replaced 1676 by Exeter Exchange.
See "Exeter Change", Exeter St and Burleigh St on 1792-99 map.
Exeter Exchange was demolished 1829.
The site is now Strand Palace Hotel.

The Strand, London, on Norden's map of Westminster, 1593.
Note "Burleigh House" on N side of The Strand.
See full size.
From London Maps and Panoramas.

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Sources yet to be consulted

• Survey of London: Volume 18, St Martin-in-The-Fields II, The Strand (1937).
  • The north side of the Strand

• The Buildings of England. London 6: Westminster. Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner. 2005 edn.

• "Plan of London from St. Giles in the Fields to Lincoln Inn". By Wenceslaus Hollar c.1658.
  [BL] Cartographic Items Print Room. Hollar, vol. VIII, p.38. Maps 3480.(376.)
  This is a 3-dimensional view. "Exeter House" appears on the Strand section.