Most of the historic properties in poh san teng temple have a cultural landscape component that is important to the importance of the resource. Historic property consists of all its cultural resources such as landscapes, buildings, archaeological sites and collections.
In addition to the vegetation and topography, the cultural landscape, including water features, such as the hang li poh well which was a source of water in the past for the surrounding people and the Dutch have built a wall to preserve it as a memorial well. Now, the well is often the focus of foreign tourists from China who want to see closely the story of the migration of Chinese Royal relatives to Melaka hundreds of years ago and still remains preserved as a valuable treasure of the Melaka Kingdom. Around the poh san teng temple area, most of the land use is dominated to be used as a cemetery area, especially for Chinese cemeteries and Muslim cemeteries are also there but not as many as Chinese cemeteries. The construction of this temple also uses the mortise method which is still maintained and used until today. And the wall of the building on the roof part of this temple uses a bracket system that is famous in the construction of traditional Chinese buildings to accommodate the roof above the roof aesthetically functioning as column heads. At the gate of the poh san teng temple, wooden elements are also used that have been preserved from the era of the Ming Dynasty because wood is generally very strong, easy to find and durable.