Listed building featuring famous Banksy is going up for sale at £700k

A renowned Banksy artwork, painted nearly two decades ago on the outside of a sexual health clinic, is set to be sold along with the building it. The 'Well Hung Lover' piece on the site of the Bristol-based building is due to go up for sale next year.

The artwork on Unity Street shows a naked man hanging from a window, with another man looking out the window whilst a woman in her underwear watches. Painted by Banksy in the summer of 2006, it has since become the most frequently visited Banksy art in Bristol.

At the time of its creation, the artwork was stencilled onto the side wall of Brook Sexual Health Clinic on Frogmore Street, which has since relocated. It's reported that Banksy was unaware that the building housed a sexual health clinic and found the irony amusing when informed via email.

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Estate agent Hollis Morgan is gearing up to sell the building, complete with a new 250-year lease, at an auction on February 12, 2025. The current owners are ensuring that the painting isn't purchased by someone intending to remove and resell it separately.

The building, a Grade II listed Georgian terraced property spanning five floors, has an auction guide price of £700,000. Hollis Morgan stated that any potential buyer would need to agree to a restrictive covenant in the lease, stipulating that the artwork must never be removed.

The statement read: "There is no official Bristol City Council policy with regard to street art, whether by Banksy or others, as it is recognised that street art is created not as a permanent work of art but as a form of protest which is usually, but not always, created illegally and without the permission of the owner of the building.

"As such, the life of any image as a work of art will evolve and change over time depending on how the work weathers or indeed is subsequently painted over or removed."

"Accordingly the purchaser will be required to accept a restrictive covenant in the lease ensuring that the image cannot be removed from the building, however, the vendor will not require a positive obligation on the purchaser to maintain the artwork or insure it for as long as it shall remain visible and in place on the building," they added.

For more information about the building visit Hollis Morgan at https://www.hollismorgan.co.uk/.