It was listed at Grade II by Historic England in 2019 following a campaign by Leeds Civic Trust, due to its many original 19th and 20th century external and interior features.

The ground floor is clad with distinctive green and cream Burmantofts faience tiling with stained glass windows.

On the ground floor are mullioned windows with quoined surrounds, and doorways with Tudor arches, carved spandrels, and shallow fanlights, and above them is a frieze with lettering for the pub name and "Melbourne Ales".

This includes a stained glass window (featuring an abstract art deco version of the Melbourne Brewery bowing courtier), wood panelling, fixed seating, the fireplace and the bar.

This added the faience ground-floor facades, using tiles from the close by Burmantofts Pottery, and introduced the majority of the features in the present-day interior.