This pub is neither a listed building nor one of London's Real Heritage Pubs but it is a (possibly) early 20th-century building with a pleasing double-gabled red brick and stone frontage.

Sadly the exterior of the ground floor storey has been painted over. It has a largely opened-up interior with some decorative elements in a restrained neo-Classical style, such as the carved wooden pediment over the bar-back, the carved wooden pineapples on the metal and wooden railing (apparently fifteen or more pineapples), and the stained glass entrance lobbies and baffles.

The Lord Napier was featured on the LPG pub crawl of Ilford, Goodmayes, Becontree and Barking in October 2012.