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Mr Thomas's Chop House, Manchester (Mrs Sarah's Chop House)

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Mr Thomas's is one of only a handful of Manchester pubs listed in CAMRA's National Inventory Of Historic Pub Interiors.

A long, narrow room divided by green tiled arches leads from the entrance along the bar and opens up into two further rooms divided by the same arches at the back. The rear room is a dining area and there is a magnificent ceramic fire place.

Handpulls in both front and back room.

The pub is famed for its food and is popular with theatregoers to the nearby Royal Exchange Theatre.

Information for this venue is provided by the Central Manchester Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Manchester District (B)
Last updated
14/11/2024
Last surveyed
04/02/2012
Pub ID
TRA/3527
Asset of Community Value

Three star - A pub interior of outstanding national historic importance

Listed status: II

An exuberant building in Jacobean style with four areas united by black and white floor tiling. A magnificent tiled interior making features of tiled arches and even a ceramic fireplace.

This is a fancy Jacobean confection dating from 1901. The front part was originally a shop and offices designed by architects Mills & Murgatroyd and the rear part, facing St Ann’s Square was by Woodhouse & Willoughby and of the same date. The interior comprises four spaces, one behind the other, demarcated by light green ceramic arches. A similarly coloured dado runs along much of the walling and the third compartment from the front also has plain cream tiling, reaching up to the ceiling. The small area at the back has an outstanding ceramic fireplace. Black and white tiled flooring runs throughout the pub. The main changes have been to the bar furniture, which is mostly modern: a photograph in the historic picture gallery in the gents’ shows how the servery was formerly located in the third compartment from the front. Over half of this fine interior operates as a good-quality restaurant. The painter L.S. Lowry was a regular here in its less up-market days. The pub was known as Mr Thomas's Chop House after Thomas Stubbs, who founded it is in 1867, but was renamed in 2019 in honour of after his wife who took over running the business in 1875 when he became to ill to work.

General information about historic pub interiors

A tall, narrow building dated 1901 in the gable. It's a typical example of exuberant end-of-the-nineteenth-century architecture - in this case in an ornate Jacobean style. The front part has red brick and terracotta while the rear is all faced in buff terracotta. Over half of this magnificent tiled interior is operated as a high class restaurant www.tomschophouse.com. The interior consists of four spaces, one behind the other, the middle two defined by a wide, green-tiled arch. These two areas are characterised by an impressive display of tilework, with a green dado running round the walls and cream tiling above extending to ceiling. A black and white tiled flooring runs throughout the whole of the pub. The two restaurant areas each have 2 arches in right-hand wall. All arches lined with green tiling and one houses a large wine rack.

In the front section is a modern bar counter and back-fitting but there is some good linen-fold panelling. Through a doorway is another modern counter and there is a small modern counter in the restaurant section. In the rear small area, also defined by a green-tiled arch, is an excellent ceramic fireplace. There is an outside seating area at the rear of the building - table service operates lunchtimes in the outside seating area (and possibly at other times).

General information about historic pub interiors
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Monday
Noon - 10:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 10:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 11:00pm
Friday
Noon - Midnight
Saturday
Noon - Midnight
Sunday
Noon - 8:30pm
Monday
Noon - 8:30pm
Tuesday
Noon - 8:30pm
Wednesday
Noon - 8:30pm
Thursday
Noon - 8:30pm
Friday
Noon - 9:30pm
Saturday
Noon - 9:30pm
Sunday
Noon - 8:00pm
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Current beers

This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 2 regular beers.

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Facilities
Sports TV Sports TV
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals Evening Meals
Garden Garden
Courtyard to rear (summer only) overlooking St Anns Square
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Newspapers Newspapers
Smoking Smoking
Features
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Transport
Close to bus routes
M1
Close to metro (500m)
St Peters Square
Nearby Station (750m)
Manchester Victoria
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