Tour of a Historic House

Hi, how are you?

Do you live here?

I do live here.

This is Burley House, and it's 500 years old.

I'm very lucky to live here.

Could I have a tour of your home?

Yeah, you can have a tour.

Go through this little door.

I'm gonna surprise you.

Alright, I'm coming in.

And then you have to look up.

Oh my god. Holy shit.

Is that surprising?

Yeah, it's almost scary.

It's hell.

So, this was painted in the 17th century

by a man called Antonio Berio.

This is the Great Hall.

We play badminton in here.

We throw these parties with helium balloons.

That was a mistake.

Oh, what's it got up?

This is heaven.

Oh, okay, the juxtaposition.

Thank god. And there's the artist.

He painted himself crouching down behind the cyclops by the column.

I'm surprised he didn't just sketch himself with some hair.

How would anyone know?

These were the paintings, works of art.

Furniture collected by two-year-old generations of grand tourists, it's called.

This is a beautiful bedroom.

A bed that was remade for Queen Victoria when

she came to stay here with Prince Albert.

I think they spent about three years preparing for her visit.

So, this is a little closet they put in for her visit.

It's a loo.

Oh, they put in a little loo in the closet.

In your bed steps.

So, this is where you used the bathroom?

In the chamber pot, yeah.

She left her glass behind.

I think they did that on purpose.

I like this.

You can see that little round one is

exhausted after a game of tennis.

We have a really important collection of porcelain in this house.

That's the earliest record of porcelain in any property in the UK.

And it's still here.

I want to show you something special.

I can open up this one here.

It's called marquetry.

So, that's the craft of creating patterns

in pictures with different colored woods.

And here you would have a little statue or something really beautiful displayed.

This is the guy that built the house.

This is William Sissel.

In the red, holding a staff of office.

Frankenstein was filmed here.

This was Frankenstein's nursery.

So, you could come here and be in Frankenstein's nursery.

From the new Jacob Elordi movie.

From the new Jacob Elordi movie.

Snooker table.

What is this trophy here?

That is the house competition trophy.

My dad started that idea.

Do you want to go on the roof?

Yes.

Try not to stand on the ridges of the lead.

This is all lead.

Okay. We're up here.

Holy crap.

And there's your crown.

I found your crown down there.

This is the most Assassin's Creed thing

I've ever done in my life.

See underneath, or the top of those painted ceilings that we're looking at?

If we jumped down there,

we'd go straight through one of those painted ceilings.

We have a lordy nurse we found here.

That's what it's gonna be dubbed from now on.

Oh! Oh, what happened?

I found a pigeon!

I thought you were falling through the roof!

We are going into the Garden of Surprises.

Oh, here's the mirror maze.

Here we are.

Quite disorientating, isn't it?

Yeah, it is a little bit.

Every family estate needs a rope bridge.

I'll show you the old kitchen.

That's the grand kitchen.

Whoa! It's good, isn't it?

This is the most grand kitchen I've

ever seen before in my life.

These are the skulls on the wall.

Those are from turtles.

Because they ate turtles.

How did you come into looking over this?

When my grandfather died, he was the last owner of Burleigh.

He created a charitable trust.

He put in his letter of wishes

that he wanted a member of the family

to live here and continue to work here as he had done.

They asked members of the family to apply and I applied,

yeah. So I now work for the charity

and this is my job and my home.