[2] Its external features include a variety of windows, most with mullions, and some with elaborate architraves, a two-storey oriel window at the junction of the streets, stepped gables, turrets with ogee domes, a balustraded parapet above the second storey, a serpentine balcony (also balustraded) above the main entrance in Hope Street, and a low relief sculpture of musicians and musical instruments.

The main entrance contains metal gates in Art Nouveau style, their design being attributed to H. Bloomfield Bare.

[2][4] There are 5 floors in total, with the main bar interior decorated in musical themes that relate to the nearby concert hall.

These decorations are executed on repoussé copper panels designed by Henry Bloomfield Bare and by Thomas Huson, plasterwork by C. J. Allen,[7] mosaics, and items in mahogany and glass.

[8] Pollard and Pevsner, in the Buildings of England series, state that it is the most richly decorated of Liverpool's Victorian public houses, and that "it is of exceptional quality in national terms".