diff --git a/catalogue/search.pl b/catalogue/search.pl
index 6228389717..045a5ed182 100755
--- a/catalogue/search.pl
+++ b/catalogue/search.pl
@@ -665,6 +665,10 @@ for (my $i=0;$i<@servers;$i++) {
                 if ( grep {$_ eq $line->{'biblionumber'}} @cart_list) {
                     $line->{'incart'} = 1;
                 }
+
+                if ( C4::Context->preference('LocalCoverImages') ) {
+                    $line->{has_local_cover_image} = $line->{biblio_object}->cover_images->count;
+                }
             }
             my( $page_numbers, $hits_to_paginate, $pages, $current_page_number, $previous_page_offset, $next_page_offset, $last_page_offset ) =
                 Koha::SearchEngine::Search->pagination_bar(
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/results.tt b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/results.tt
index 8e5e2bb141..947a4935d4 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/results.tt
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/results.tt
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
                                             [% IF ( CoverImagePlugins || AmazonCoverImages  || LocalCoverImages || IntranetCoce || ( SyndeticsCovers ) || (Koha.Preference('CustomCoverImages') && Koha.Preference('CustomCoverImagesURL')) ) %]
     <td class="bookcoverimg">
         <div id="cover-slides-[% SEARCH_RESULT.biblionumber | html %]" class="cover-slides" data-biblionumber="[% SEARCH_RESULT.biblionumber | html %]" data-isbn="[% To.json(SEARCH_RESULT.normalized_isbn) | $raw %]" data-processedbiblio="[% PROCESS biblio_a_href biblionumber => SEARCH_RESULT.biblionumber | $raw %]">
-            [% IF ( LocalCoverImages ) %]
+            [% IF ( LocalCoverImages && SEARCH_RESULT.has_local_cover_image ) %]
                 <div id="local-coverimg-[% SEARCH_RESULT.biblionumber | html %]" class="cover-image local-coverimg">
                     <a href="[% PROCESS biblio_a_href biblionumber => SEARCH_RESULT.biblionumber %]">
                         <img src="/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/image.pl?thumbnail=1&amp;biblionumber=[% SEARCH_RESULT.biblionumber | uri %]" alt="Local cover image" />