As a result of the national forces that we stirred up, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) decided to list Trafalgar House, Edinburgh Road, in response to an application to English Heritage from the City Conservation Officer. The building itself is of no architectural or historic interest and the listing is on account of Eric Rimmington's mural. This was painted in 1949 when it was home to the Trafalgar Services Club. We understand that this - the listing of a building solely on account of a work of art that it contains - is extremely unusual.

Wetherspoons have now applied for listed building consent to rearrange the interior of the building, which is to be a Wetherlodge, so as to preserve the wall that carries the mural and to give them the bar space they need.

Click here to read Eric Rimmington's own account of how the mural came into being.