| CRAGSIDE | Victorian country house built for the magnate Baron Armstrong (8) |
| BURGHLEY | --- House, 16th Century country house built for William Cecil, Elizabeth I's chief minister, home to an annual Horse Trials (8) |
| ALTONTOWERS | Derbyshire home built for the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury |
| BRODSWORTH | ___ Hall, renowned Victorian country house near Doncaster (10) |
| MOGUL | Carry, by order, up for the magnate (5) |
| OSBORNE | House built for Victoria - or George? (7) |
| ORNES | Word paired with "cottage" to mean small picturesque country houses built in rustic "chocolate-box" style (5) |
| MOE | Victorian country race track (3) |
| AGNATE | The magnate was cut off for being on his father's side |
| TYCOON | Not coy about the magnate |
| ALHAMBRA | A citadel and palace in Granada, Spain, built for the Moorish kings during the 13th and 14th Centuries (8) |
| LUTONHOO | House on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borders built for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert Adam |
| BLENHEIM | Palace built for the 1st Duke of Marlborough (8) |
| SEAGOING | Built for the water, attention-seeker in Ganges, swimming |
| LONGLEAT | Set in 900 acres of Capability Brown parkland, an Elizabethan house built and designed by Sir John Thynne with Robert Smythson that is the seat of the Marquess of Bath (8) |
| HAREWOOD | - House; stately home built in Yorkshire for the Lascelles family with Robert Adam interiors and Thomas Chippendale furniture (8) |
| STOKESAY | Hamlet in Shropshire, home to a fortified manor house built in the 12805 by Laurence of Ludlow (8) |
| HATFIELD | Town in Hertfordshire, site of a Jacobean courtier's house built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, with gardens designed by John Tradescant the Elder (8) |
| BECKFORD | Vathek author whose Gothic revival building Fonthill Abbey was once the largest private home built in the UK (8) |
| HANDSOME | Gorgeous house built over crumbling sand (8) |
