An aerial plan of Burlington House, one of the earliest of a number of large private residences built on the north side of Piccadilly, previously a country lane near London. It was a red-brick double-pile hip-roofed mansion with a recessed centre, typical of the style of the time. The house was sold in an incomplete state in 1667 to Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Burlington, from whom it derives its name. In 1704, the house was passed on to ten-year-old Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington, who was to become the principal patron of the Palladian movement in England. - Stock Photo
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