Sinclairs Oyster Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. Restaurant. 3 related planning applications.
Sinclairs Oyster Bar
- WRENN ID
- late-spire-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1952
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- Sinclairs Oyster Bar, Shambles Square, M3 1SW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 839 986
- Coordinates
- 53.48461, -2.24385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sinclair's Oyster Bar is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and has been altered, including a recent raising of approximately 30 feet to match the new street level due to 20th-century redevelopment. The building features a stucco exterior painted in black and white, with a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan on a corner site, divided into two parts with a splayed corner. The main section has three low storeys, while the corner block has four higher storeys.
The facade has three windows on the main range and one window in the splayed corner. The ground floor is painted black and includes a central coupled doorway, a window with four arched lights to the right, and another doorway in the splayed corner. The upper floors are painted to resemble black-and-white "half-timbering," with coupled windows on the left side of each floor featuring altered small-pane glazing. The centre has one 16-pane sash window on each floor, while the four-storey portion features a 12-pane sash at the first floor, another at a much higher second floor level, and a 9-pane sash at the top of an equally high third floor. Each floor of the corner block has 16-pane sashes.
The corner block is notable for its unusual reversed-slope roof and prominent bracketed cornice. Inside, there are signs of its early origins, along with various chop house fittings from the early 19th century. Sinclair's Oyster Bar is historically significant as one of the oldest oyster bars and chop houses in England and is part of a group with The Old Wellington Inn located to the left.
Local climate
Sinclairs Oyster Bar sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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