A former fish and chip shop, thought to have been the subject of a lithograph by Bradford artist David Hockney, has been put up for auction.

Councillor Geoff Reid (Lib Dem, Eccleshill) said he had it on good authority from a local historian that the Plaice To Eat shop, in Institute Road, was the subject of the artist’s 1954 work, Fish and Chip Shop, completed while he was a student in Bradford.

Robin Silver, a director of Salts Estates at Salts Mill, said the picture, which he also believed to be of the Eccleshill shop, was on display at the 1853 Hockney Gallery.

The shop is among the units at 1A, 3 and 4 Stoney Lane and 2 to 8 Institute Road which are being auctioned off by Eddisons on Thursday, June 14.

The fish shop is described on the company’s website as needing “total structural renovation”.

Simon Loveitt, chairman of the Eccleshill Village Steering Group, said: “As a developer, if you are putting business in there, there will be restoration involved with that.

“We want restoration of the building. That will help the Eccleshill village in terms of its development. My view is with renovation, it could again be an iconic building.”

Coun Reid said: “I will look forward with interest to the outcome of the auction. It is an important building in terms of Eccleshill village. If the property is sold and worked on, hopefully there’ll be a chance of getting a more diverse range of businesses into Eccleshill.”

For many years the Hockney family home was a terraced house in Hutton Terrace in Eccleshill. The artist, 75 this July, lived there with his parents, brothers and sister until he went to the Royal College of Art in London in the mid-1950s.