The London Garden Trust notes that there are "notable plane, and other semi-mature trees in the grounds, and numerous headstones and chest tombs set in grass.

When the cemetery was opened the Hackney area was largely undeveloped and the grounds served as a rural retreat with little changing until the arrival of the railways in the 1850s, allowing much faster connections to the City of London.

In March 2021 Historic England listed, at Grade II, the whole of the cemetery along with "the lodge, gates and piers facing Lauriston Road and portion of the walling to the south of the graveyard".

[5] The listing recognises the cemetery "has a lodge building, walls, railings and gates of 1870 by HH Collins" which are all well preserved and a rare survival from the period especially as a group.

The listing recognises the importance of the cemetery for its architectural interest in the collection of 18th-century and 19th-century headstones and monuments along with the development of Jewish burial customs and assimilation into British society.