This pub is not only a grade II listed building, it is also on the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Local Inventory with an interior of local historic interest.

The listing description is as follows: "Includes: No.55 CLERKENWELL CLOSE. Terraced houses now incorporating a restaurant at no. 55 Clerkenwell Close, a pub at no 43 and a shop at no 44. Early C19 with pub frontage of c.1900. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. Two-window range to no 55 Clerkenwell Close, no 43 has a three-window range in Clerkenwell Close and two-window range in Clerkenwell Green, two-window range to no 44. Ground floor of no 55 Clerkenwell Close stuccoed with banded rustication; flat-arched entrance with cornice, C20 shallow bracketed bay window, and vestigial cornice. The pub front to no 43 has a tiled base, and pilasters supporting fascia and cornice; the framing to windows and doors appears to survive, and some original engraved glass, now set behind plate glass windows. No 44 has late C20 shopfront. The upper windows flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves, those to the first floor with segmental pediments on consoles; cornice and blocking course. The interior of The Crown Tavern includes a late C19 bar back and bar counter surviving apparently in moderately large part; there is a back room with late C19 panelled dado, and a fireplace possibly of that date; staircase to upper room with turned balusters."

The WhatPub link is here: WhatPub/Crown Tavern

The Crown Tavern is yet to feature on a LPG pub tour.