3 Bute Esplanade is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 August 1992. Group of buildings. 1 related planning application.

3 Bute Esplanade

WRENN ID
graven-garret-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 August 1992
Type
Group of buildings
Address
3 Bute Esplanade, Butetown, CF10 5BD
OS grid reference
ST 188 742
Coordinates
51.46177, -3.1692
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

3 Bute Esplanade is a two-storey plus attic building featuring two windows. It is constructed of stuccoed brick, with a rusticated ground floor. The roofs are tiled, and there are rendered chimneys, each topped with four pots. Each house has a single gabled dormer. The building has a parapet and a heavy cornice, with first-floor windows that include cornices and architraves. There is a band course at sill level and another band course above the rusticated ground floor.

Number 4 has a bracketed cornice over its doorway with architraves, while Number 3 is similar but has lost its cornice. Both houses have porches with Minton-type tiled dados; the floor of Number 3 is tiled, and Number 4 features a mosaic floor. The inner doors are half-glazed with patterned frosted glass, and Number 3 retains its original five-panelled entrance door. The ground floor window of Number 4 has stucco voussoirs. Number 3 features a semi-circular bay window with a balustrade, a dentil cornice, and Tuscan pilasters acting as mullions, all set on a grey stone plinth. Number 3 has horned sash glazing, while Number 4 has replacement glazing. At the rear, both houses have a two-storey extension with a tall chimney stack.

Local climate

3 Bute Esplanade sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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