Numbers 1 to 7 Bute Esplanade are the remainder of a terrace of twelve houses which originally stretched from NGR ST1885974292 to ST1982574297, the five westernmost houses having been demolished in the first half of the twentieth century.

Resembling the architecture of 58-59 Mount Stuart Square (NPRN 307735), Bute Esplanade was constructed in c.1857, likely to the design of Alexander Roos, architect to the Bute Estate. Numbers 2-7 consist of two storeys plus attics and are constructed of stuccoed brick with a rusticated ground floor. Number 1 is of three storeys. The original design of the ground floors was a door with rectangular fanlight under a bracketed cornice to the left and a tripartite sash window to right. Number 7 is reversed. Several of the doors, however, have lost their cornices or had them replaced with variations, and number 3 has a large round bay window topped with a balustrade in place of the tripartite sash. There is a string course above the first storey and another at second-storey sill level. The second storeys have two sash windows, numbers 1, 3, 6, and 7, with cornices above. The second storeys of numbers 3, 4, and 6 are topped with a dentil cornice. Numbers 2-7 have gabled dormers and rendered chimneys with four pots in tiled roofs. Number 1 has two third-storey square sash windows and a hipped roof.

(Sources: Cadw Listed Buildings Database; Victorian Society Tour Notes, VS01/16)
A.N. Coward, RCAHMW, 31.7.2018