1 Bute Place

1 Bute Place is an Italian Renaissance style building, three storeys tall with ten window bays on the main south elevation. It is constructed of red brick with red sandstone dressings sourced from Shawk quarries in Cumberland, and features grey granite columns. The hipped slate roof is adorned with red sandstone chimneys. A sandstone cornice with a balustrade and a central aedicule crowns the building.

On the second floor, there are segmental-headed windows with sandstone architraves that include keystones, and a sandstone cornice at sill level. The first floor windows also have sandstone architraves, with bracketed triangular pediments above them. The ground floor is faced in red sandstone, featuring round-headed doorways in the fourth and seventh bays, which have panelled double doors and semi-circular fanlights above. The remaining bays contain round-headed windows with keystones and panelled aprons below. The ground floor is articulated by grey granite columns in Roman Doric style, which are doubled at the ends of the facade.

An entablature supports a balustraded parapet that rises to the first floor sill level, with the central four bays breaking forward to form a porch. The wall behind the porch is accentuated by granite pilasters, and the centre two bays of the porch project, featuring doubled columns at the ends. The east return has five bays in the same style, but the first floor windows have flat cornices instead of triangular pediments, and there is no balustrading below the sills. Doubled granite pilasters are present at the southern end of this elevation.

At the rear, the elevation is in red brick with camber-headed windows, and there is a two-storey wing that follows a similar design. Facing Dock Lane to the east, the yard is surrounded by a brick wall with sandstone coping and tall sandstone gatepiers. To the north of the gates, there is an outbuilding with a shaped gable and a tall brick chimney.

Inside, to the right of the portico in the entrance hall, there is an impressive staircase with cast iron banisters in a Grecian style. A similar staircase is visible through doors to the left of the portico.