[2][3] The Dundee Arms Hotel is a typical early pub design of Victorian Regency style painted and/or rendered sandstone with slate roof; pre-1860s largely original three storey building with sound exterior and two small terraces of roughly the same date attached at the side rear facing former market lane.

[1] The Dundee Arms Hotel is typical of early corner pubs in Victorian Sydney, and it makes an important contribution to the significance of the Sussex Street Group.

[1] Dundee Arms Hotel was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

[1] The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

[1] The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

The Dundee Arms is representative of the type of building which held social significance for the local working population and visiting sailors.